Some medicines, such as amprenavir, aprepitant, atazanavir, ciprofloxacin, darunavir, diltiazem, dronedarone, fosamprenavir, fosaprepitant, imatinib, or verapamil, may slow down how quickly your liver processes your pain medicine.The amount of pain medicine in your blood may increase and cause more side effects than expectedCURIOUS TO KNOW IF THE TWO IN ONE SHOT HAD ANY STEROID IN IT? THE HOSPITAL DID TAKE A BLOOD TEST I WOULD THINK ON AN UN RESPONSIVE PATIENT? THAN A DRUG OVERDOSE AND SEND HIM ON HIS WAY WITH A TWO IN ONE SHOT IN 3 HOURS. MIXED COCKTAILS TAKE TIME TO GO THROUGH YOUR SYSTEM.
I'm not surprised that drugs is the cause of Prince's demise anymore, but I'm kinda disappointed to accept it a reality that all those talented musicians are drug addicts.
I know it's a cliché at this point since many great ones overdosed or died of drug related deaths from Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Hendrix, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston to name a few...and now Prince.
Ever since it was revealed Michael Jackson was a drug addict I was stunned and disappointed because I thought I knew him and what he stood for. I mean his music is all about positivity and change; yet, after his death it was revealed that he was bald, his lips were tattooed on, etc...he was a stranger! I grew up emulating him and I still love his music. Greatest ever.
These celebrities we love so much that we hate only to love again are fictional characters in human form, we've made them this way cause that's how we want them to be and they love us for it.
The lifestyle these icons live is not normal or ordinary in anyway. Self-image alone can cause mental distortion. Let alone the media, money, competition and survival. Only a few great artists managed to stay well (relatively) but they are not "icons". Being an "icon" comes with strings attached. The cost is often ones life.
Stan, you're living in a dream world. How could you have been stunned that MJ was a drug addict? That was widely publicised after his Pepsi hair burning episode. After that he shaved his head and wore wigs. Then we had the constant nasal repairs, the gross cleft in the chin and lifts in the cheeks. Dude, by the time he was done he was a monster example of Hollywood plastic. Does an unimpaired person make these kind of decisions? Tattoo'd eyelids and lips are extremely common and were the least of his problems. Vanity killed MJ.
In the county i live in 1 death occurs a day and so does several overdoses where narcan has to be administered to save the life of a person that is using and then overdoses on Heroin . I live in Ohio. You seldom hear , and its not on the news of how bad it is , because in today's society there's no end to it and the bad is so bad so often no one even flinches, so they should take a singer that died and squash him on the complications of his life, its not right.
It's not mentioned because it's still taboo. Families don't want to admit their loved ones overdosed due to public opinion. It's really sad and only keeps the OD train moving at full speed.
I lived in Salem Ohio all my life just 20 mins southeast of Youngstown , we never ...ever had heroin there, pot some scattered instances of Coke but now our sleepy little town has a "homeless population" meth labs being raided or blown up , and daytime home invasions, a police force that's not equipped to handle the overwhelming occurrences of drug related thefts or crime related to drugs in general. Those of us who grew up here blame Walmart and we have those who work for Walmart screaming that Walmart created jobs... But our town really never "struggled " for jobs so I don't know where that came from . Ohio northeast is comprised of factories, coal mining , plastics , and farming, .... In the late 80s and 90s our drug of choice was oxy & tramadol ... Now it's heroin & meth,... Trafficking from Pittsburgh thru West Virginia across the border into east Liverpool up 11 and bam!, you have the OxyContin highway.Working in Salem hospital for a few years before going to Cleveland clinic we really never saw the amount of heroin ODs that they see now, it's sad my once cool little Mayberry FD is now heroin hell.... since moving here to ST Petersburg Florida I agree with mark about the ODs ... I'm thinking the number might even be higher than he states, but respectively he's pretty much on point.
Blame the doctors for prescribing dangerous medications that used to be only prescribed for intense pain that one would be suffering at the end of life, i.e. cases such as stage four cancer. They were recognized as dangerous and addictive drugs, and further, they often contain Tylenol. An overdose of acetaminophen can damage your liver or cause death. The pharmaceutical companies lobbied/paid[/-off the FDA to allow the dosage restrictions to be lifted. Soon opiates were provided for a dental procedures, minor surgery and chronic pain. Doctors were given kickbacks by the pharmaceutical companies via their salespeople that visited their offices. They were given, cash, trips, dinners and all sorts of gifts. Everyone made money, including the patients that made selling their prescriptions a business. Soon, the pills could be found in the medicine cabinets all over the country. One bottle can hook you. So, a minor procedure, such as a tooth extraction, can now be an end of life event. There have been crackdowns on pill mill doctor's offices, and a great many of the drugs are off of the streets. The prices go up, and heroine becomes the substitute.
So another talented and gifted performer threw their life away for their drugs. Just as so many have done before him and what so many will continue to do, until they wake up and seek help. Such a shame and waste in these performers and so many young people too.
I was on percocet for 5 days for a dental problem I had years ago. I didn't see much difference with it but it helped somewhat. Now I am glad my doctor did the right thing for fear of addiction. I had no idea that you could get hooked on medication, now I know better. Doctors have to prescribe these drugs with great caution knowing the long term implications they cause. Prince I guess is partially responsible too but the greater onus lies with the doctor. Off course if someone is suffering chronic pain it can be hard to know what to do for either the patient or doctor. Yet I don" t get how anyone can get hooked on say percocet. It did very little for me.
Sorry to say, Prince was totally responsible. It was his decision what to ingest and how much. If his pain was so great that he was taking enough to kill himself or OD, he obviously was taking to much. He had just suffered from an overdose. He should have been kept in the hospital for evaluation period. There was multiple screw-ups here folks.
Drugs work differently for different people. Percocet will knock me out. Vicodin only makes a little woozy, and Ibuprohen does,t make me drowsy at all, not even the 800s. Maybe he did take them to get high, we don't kmow. What we do know is that Prince had chronic lower back and hip pain from an injury he got a couple of years ago. It's not surprising that a doctor would prescribe percocet to some who had to be very active physically, he'd need something strong to get through a show.
Could be true. I ran a recording studio and know that most musicians use drugs. So do a stupefying number of middle class and upper class Americans. This is one area where we lead the world. Strange if he didn't, actually.
After seeing other famous people's demises, you'd think that other VIPs would say it's time to live on a lower scale and work a lot less or retire. When people live so large, they've got to keep working just for the upkeep and to pay Uncle Sam. It's a damn shame.
Not just prince, but all americans have been left hanging out to dry by the medical association. From the poisons in our foods to Doctors who only treat the symptoms & not the cause. We are taught to believe Doctors are looking out for our best interests... That couldn't be further from the truth. They're all looking to make money off of us & could give a hoot if we live or die~ Or they'd stop hiding the truth & cure the problem, not just treat the symptoms!
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Amen Jeremiah. Thank you for your comment. I am one of those who has lived with chronic illness for 40 of my 52 years. Only 10 years,ago had to go on painkillers or would be dead. I do not abuse my painmeds, like many others. Yet I can no longer get those meds that at least give me a minimal quality of life. The CDC and the entire medical community are a sham. I am now treating myself naturally, but live in a state where medical mj is not legal. So we have to get it anywhere. I've spent well over 100k out of pocket chasing cures to no avail. I am so sick of these holier than thou types who have no idea of the millions of us out there who depend on pain meds to live, and do not abuse them. I am just sick of the comparisons. These famous stars are just people too. Did you see where all those ppl died in CA from black market opiod pills laced with Fentanyl? Many of these ppl were those who couldn't get their pain meds and were forced to go to the street thanks to the updated CDC regs. There will be many more deaths before this is over. Why aren't they looking at this? The US has created this epidemic. You are right, we are all sick because of our food supply, pesticides and artificial and GMOs not being outlawed, etc, etc. All these autoimmune disorders exploding and causing cancer in us and our animals too. What a vicious cycle!
@Jeremiah - There are lots and lots of doctors who are deeply committed to the health and care of their fellow humans. How can you be oblivious to doctors who give generously of their own lives, with no compensation, to provide emergency care in times of catastrophe or when confronted with the poor in compelling circumstances? Try not to be so jaded. "There still some good in the world, Mr Frodo." Creating wholesale negative stereotypes about doctors is unfair.
he is hardly alone if he had problems with prescription painkillers, especially for chronic pain. Not all pain, especially again those caused by orthopedic problems can be resolved through treatments up to an including surgery and the management of chronic pain for these patients sadly, hasn't advanced much past the numb it up with drugs stage. It is sad if this problem took away such a talent and shortened his life though. Modern imagining of the body should start giving us some sort of new treatments as we come to understand the sources of inflammation and damage to our body but it hasn't advanced as much as our treatment of, let's say, communicable diseases.
I cut off 1/2 of my thumb at work while servicing a shear. I went to the hospital, they cauterized it, and I went back to work and finished the day with no pain killers. I never even filled the prescription that they gave me.
some people have cronic pain from auto accidents ect for decades . and then realize they dont want to live that way any more and end it one way or another its sad but true . i personaly had known some one that way and she was in a wheel chair and got tired of that quality of life and ended it but with a gun . prince is no eception when the body and internal organs start to fail the pain far ecededs the drug and they feal there is know way out but more drugs and with endless $ you can get it and any you want . R.I.P. PRINCE .
There have been very bad problems ,concerning pain killer meds ! My doctor won't even perscribe them for me any more .I 've had back problems for a long time and surgery didn't even help the pain. I hurt my back loading sidewinder ,sparrow missiles and 500 pound bombs in the military . I thought the doctor was just being a butt head but I was glad that he stopped perscribing those meds ,after I found out the problem that others have had because of them! I am thinking that the addiction comes, when people party and mix those meds with alcohol ,I stopped drinking over 16 years ago ,to prevent abuse of the pain medications and becoming addicted ! Its so sad that the people who are in the entertainment business .sometimes gets caught up in the abuse of medications and illegal drug .When they said that he was found dead ,drug abuse was the first thing that comes to mind .
Stop trying to taint the mans legacy. His death is nobody's business let him lie in peace. The only people that need to know the cause of his death is his immediate family.
50% of the commercials today are for prescription drugs, over 100,000 people die every year in America due to side effects, taking the drugs as prescribe by their doctors, ( Google It ). But of course nobody will talk about it, it would cost Big Pharma billions in revenue ! Who are the real terrorists the legal Drug Pushers or ISIS ?
We are a whining generation. He is dead. He was an entertainer. He probably had physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual problems. We all do because we're all human.
@Kabul Thank you so much for your comment. Yes we all are human beings going thru life's ups and downs. It gets tough sometimes, but we gotta hang in here the best we can. Some of us are stronger than others and have better coping abilities in dealing with challenges, while others can't handle the pressure of life's hardships. We must find strength and conquer our pit falls. Reach out if we must. There are people like you who has touched people like me with words. #feelinginspired #peace
All of this tragedy and suffering was caused by the Jehovah's witnesses and their odd cult beliefs that prevented Prince from having routine surgery. I truly wish he had not been brainwashed and suckered into their cult.
Witness DO NOT prevent anyone from having surgery, that's just an ignorant assumption based on total lack of knowledge! Witnesses have millions of surgeries and according to the AMA, their stand against blood transfusions has actually made the medical world better at what they do. Making blanket statements like this just promotes hatred and ignorance.
@Matthew: You obviously know nothing about the JW's. They have no problems with medicine, in fact they usually seek the best medical procedures available to them within their financial reach. There are many doctors out there who specialize in bloodless medicine, (which is their big bugaboo) and they routinely receive hip, shoulder, knee, open heart, and brain, surgery without the use of blood transfusions, which they will not accept... As to whether or not they are a cult, I have found in reading the history of religions, that the only difference between a cult, and a full fledged religion, is about 100 years. His religion had nothing to do with his death. Back off with bigotry.
Of course pain killers were the cause and quit sensationalizing this fact. Nothing changes. He was still a "KING" is his own right and gave us his life to insure all his performances were epic. So go focus your miserable existence Matt on something worthy and reporters position... .
Problem is there are no real safe alternatives to opiates for pain control. The NSAIDs have many terrible long rear side effects so it puts health care providers in a real bind
Like Michael Jackson, Prince had little impact on MY life, except as a recording artist. As far as drugs, ... hell, Hank Williams died from booze and pills, and America survived. Keith Moon, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, ... There's a lot of that going around ... unfortunately!! Too young is too young.
