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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Whitney Houston, another Big Pharma victim?

Celebrities Lost

America’s most famous people have been dying from prescription drugs for decades. Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe quickly come to mind. But just as the epidemic has exploded on main street America, so too has it taken its toll among the nation’s most celebrated people. Here is just a brief list, from the past and the present, and the prescription drugs that killed them.
Below from PharmacyTechs.net and Wikipedia.comMarilyn Monroe (1962) – Pentobarbital, chloral hydrate
Dorothy Dandridge (1965) – Imipramine/Tofranil
Jimi Hendrix (1970) – Secobarbital/Seconal
Bruce Lee (1973) – Equagesic
Freddie Prinze (1977) – Methaqualone/Quaaludes
Elvis Presley (1977) - 14 drugs, including codeine, methaqualone/Quaaludes
Keith Moon (The Who) (1978) – Clomethiazole/Heminevrin
Abbie Hoffman (1989) – Phenobarbital
Steve Clark (Def Leppard) (1991) - Unspecified antidepressant and painkiller
Margaux Hemingway (1996) – Phenobarbital
Rob Pilatus (Milli Vanilli) (1998) – methadone
Dana Plato (1999) – Carisoprodol/Soma, Vicodin
Ol’ Dirty Bastard (Wu-Tang Clan) (2004) – Tramadol
Chris Penn (2006) – Promethazine, codeine
Gerald Levert (2006) – 6 drugs including Vicodin, Percocet, Dextropropoxyphene/Darvocet
Anna Nicole Smith (2007) - 11 drugs including chloral hydrate, clonazepam/Klonopin, lorazepam/Ativan, oxazepam/Serax, diazepam/Valium
Pimp C (Underground Kingz) (2007) – Promethazine, codeine
Heath Ledger (2008) - 6 drugs including oxycodone, hydrocodone, temazepam, diazepam/Valium, alprazolam/Xanax and doxylamine
Michael Jackson (2009) – propofol, benzodiazepine
Brittany Murphy (2009) – multiple drugs including hydrocodone, L-methamphetamine, chlorpheniramine
Leslie Carter (Nick/Aaron) (2012) – pending toxicology results
Whitney Houston (2012) – pending toxicology results
With all due love and affection for the above, it’s a shame it takes the death of a superstar to shine an always brief spotlight on the devastating effects of prescription drugs and their over-supply in this country. More than 40 regular Americans die from the same prescription drugs everyday.

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Monday, February 6, 2012

AddictShuns: Two paths of choice

TWO PATHS:
There are two paths of choice given to each soul. Good or evil, blessings or curse, life abundant or life just barely making it. Fulfillment or insatiable addictions. The ancient call from Moses in Mt. Sinai's desert lands squarely in our face in modern times:

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: Deuteronomy 30:18-20

Potential... Do you know yours? Do unfulfilled desires, spark against the mindful frozen places in life - when we are stuck? Sometimes we are filled with hope and promise, only to be squelched by fears, static doubt and slothfulness. There is a destiny for each of us, a plan for productive lives, blossoming gardens and time to prove life's bearing of goodness or destruction. A garden bearing fruit or one filled with rocks and briers. Often we have lived in both circumstance.

Some find their way becoming exactly what they want with all things falling in place. The devote their entire being with a single focus on their art, music, talents, skills and careers, despite obstacles they always aim towards their goals. Noticed or not, the pursuit of skillful productivity and honorable craft remain the heartbeat of their existence. Nothing pulls them away from that purpose. They master their profession rather than waste or divide time to useless, self-destructive activities.

Others fall in to the sludge of nothingness, held captive to past wounds and hurts, filled with anger, bitterness and self-pity that things didn't go "my way." They become lost in self-incriminating talk, mashing all the pain with fraudulent lifestyles filled with parties, self-indulgence no matter what the cost to those around them. They learn the art of deceit using words and looking good on the outside to connive people into their intentions. They numb their pain with superficial remedies in the form of addiction from drugs, to sex, to work, to food to whatever comforts them for the time being. It's really greed in the ugliest form. It all begins so easy with just one drink, one pill or glimpse. When hooked it's the exact path of the goodness only on the dark side. Every focus is to fill the bodies need for relief. The path of addiction is actually the art of self deception leading to destruction. The substance of need becomes a wicked, relentless god.

Women Food and God
I read this book Women Food and God. It plowed through my own issues and pains, which doesn't happen very often. I understand that she writes about things that underlie any one's addictions and avoidance in overcoming obstacles in life. It's too bad it's title states Women and Food. I believe it is written for everyone. The word 'Food' can be replaced by drugs, pills, smoking, pornography or whatever other vice one faces. It's worth the read. Getting to the root of any illness or disease is the first step towards healing.

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Women Food and God

more from her journal: Chapter 7

Chapter Seven & Eight available now!

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