Did Michael Jackson Suffer from Prescription Painkiller Addiction?
Yesterday, we lost a major American icon, Michael Jackson, to cardiac arrest. The question that many news organizations including Kansas City Star, The Daily Mail Online, and Life & Style Weekly are asking is: was that cardiac arrest due to prescription painkiller addiction?
Michael Jackson: Prescription Drug Abuse or Prescription Drug Addiction?
Whether it was prescription drug addiction or prescription drug abuse, Life & Style has reported that Michael was taking as many as seven different prescription drugs simultaneously in the past few months, including Xanax, Zoloft and Demerol. The source who supplied this information to Life & Style said that that they suspected that Michael overdosed Thursday morning, an event which may have precipitated his cardiac arrest and, ultimately, his death.
Brian Oxman is a Jackson family lawyer. He says that prescription drugs were a problem for Michael: “This was something which I feared and something which I warned about,” Oxman told CNN. “I can tell you for sure that this is something I warned about. Where there is smoke there is fire.”
Michael Jackson Had Long History of Medical Problems
Though the world at large is somewhat shocked by yesterday’s news, those who were close to the pop star say that Michael has been struggling with medical issues and receiving prescriptions for those issues, including Demerol, going as far back as 1984 when he suffered an injury while filming a Pepsi commercial. Unfortunately, this is how prescription drug addiction starts for most people: an injury or a surgery that results in a painkiller prescription that is poorly managed by a doctor and ends up resulting in addiction.
Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole Smith: Whose Fault Is It?
Jackson’s lawyer, Oxman, says that Michael had people who enabled his prescription drug abuse, much like Anna Nicole Smith, whose enablers are now on trial. What do you think? Is it true? Can the deaths of celebrities due to drug addiction be blamed on the people around them or, ultimately, is it the responsibility of the individual who takes the drugs, no matter how famous they are?
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