Oxycontin Addiction on CBS; “I never said I want to grow up to be a junkie, ever,” says 22-year-old Troy. But he did, and he now he is ashamed of it. Like tens of thousands of people around the country, he breaks the law every day, abusing a powerful painkiller called OxyContin. “If I were…
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by Robert Davis Andy Sachs is not the stereotypical opiate junkie. He gets his drugs from a pharmacy, not a street dealer. He began taking his medicine for severe pain, not for the high. And the drug he’s hooked on is more widely used than heroin. Six million people a year take OxyContin. His…
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Heroin Addiction The Globe – Young and Wild Teen idol Leif Garrett’s world came crashing down when he drove a car over the side of an 80-foot hill in a drug-fueled stupor and paralyzed his passenger for life. The scandal and ensuing $7.1 million judgment against him sent the I Was Made for Dancing heartthrob…
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Rapid Detox has become the celebrity health craze.The system is replacing the traditional cold turkey and 12 steps in Hollywood. Doctors at the Waismann Institute in Beverly Hills give patients an anesthetic before draining their bowels to flush out any drugs and toxins. They claim “film and music celebrities” among those they treat.”Sixty percent of…
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As if life weren’t enough of a coast for celebrities, along comes a quickie rehab method that allows addicts to sleep through withdrawal – and drink booze once it’s over. Rapid detox, the trendiest health fad in Hollywood, sidesteps the traditional 12 steps in favor of what sounds like a medical miracle: weaning those hooked…
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by Leslie Pepper We gobble them like candy, but they can do more harm than good. Here are the risks you need to know. The Rising Tide of Prescription Abuse Courtney Love calls them the new LSD, or “lead singer’s drug.” Rapper Eminem has a tattoo of one on his bicep. David Spade even joked…
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December 12, 2001 In California, Troy S. arrived at the Waismann Institute for Opiate Dependence. Troy was hooked to a morphine drip to keep him from withdrawal. “Troy S. is a very typical patient we treat. If he doesn’t get his opiates, he’ll be very sick. After that, he’ll crave these drugs. It’s a…
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by Caryn James In a scene of creepy voyeurism and joltingly effective reporting, a 22-year-old named Troy Swett, who looks like any middle-class college student in a red sweatshirt and baseball cap, sits in his messy apartment in Maine and prepares to stick a needle in his arm as the cameras watch. ”I’m ashamed of…
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The latest must-have Hollywood accessory is a small, white, ovoid tablet. It will relax you, and make you happy. Not dangerously, wildly happy; just really quite content. It makes life “sweet and smooth”, but you can still get to work on it, and do your job just fine. The pill is Vicodin, an unglamorous enough…
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by Rachel Dissell, News-Record Staff Writer Doctors who specialize in pain management and cancer treatment are cursing recent media coverage that trumpets only the alleged evils of OxyContin, an opiate that burst onto the market in 1996 after approval by the Food and Drug Administration. Pain practitioners praise the drug as a miraculous leap forward…
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