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Prescription Addiction:

What The Death Of Michael Jackson Said About Us All

All the eulogies praising Michael Jackson as the greatest enterainer ever (hewasnt but he was the most hyped) the greatest dancer (Nuryev, Baroishnikov,

Niinsky!) and the greatest pop singer ("oy #rbison, Nat $ing %ole, &lvis 'resley,

"ay %harles, %li "ichard, Mick Jagger!) are meaningless and all the accolades

merely a subective opinion But the manner o his death and what emerged in the

trial o his doctor makes a very signiicant comment on the society and the celebriy

culture that created him

This is an article first written in 2010 which I am reviving at this point because of

concerns among health professionals about the year on year increase in people dying

as a resuilt of their addiction to prescription drugs.

Michael Jacksons last words, we learned as %onrad Murray, his doctor was

convicted o *+nvoluntary Manslaughter and details o the trial emerged this week,

were- *'lease, please, let me have some milk .hat does not sound creepy in any

way until you know that the emotionally crippled man/child spoke in a kind o code,

Michael Jackson !here did it all go wrong"


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making everything that was deranged and slea0y in his lie sound as i it was childish

and innocent Michael Jacksons *milk was propool, a powerul anaesthetic that

happens to be white in colour when in li1uid orm

+t would be too easy to write this o as ust another instance o a megastar alling

under the inluence o a 1uack with a prescription pad or hire as did Marilyn

Monroe, Judy 2arland, &lvis 'resley and many others .oo easy because it would

tempt us to overlook a dangerous trends in western societies 3hat happened to

43hacko Jacko4 is happening on a lesser scale to millions o people who treat doctors

as suppliers o their own personal *milk

#rdinary people who have to hold down obs to earn their living, who cannot live

in a delusional state within the bubble o antasy constantly reinlated by awning

sycophants +n some cases it is not enough to ust turn up at the surgery and demand

medication that will render the user insensate to the *heartache and the thousand

shocks o daily lie, some inconsiderate, unethical doctors still insist on e5amining

patients But igures released by the 6$ National health service show that in our

nation o 78 million, 99 million prescriptions or ben0odia0epine tran1uillisers such

as :alium are written every year More signiicantly, prescriptions or

antidepressants, mainly selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ('ro0ac) have doubled

over the past decade, to ;8 million

Antidepressants have a better image than

tran1uillisers .hey are thought o as *good drugs

that can lit the inner darkness o depressed

people .he reality is more complicated


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associated with the =otos &aters ou can walk into any British pharmacy and buy pills that, taken on an empty

stomach, will chill you out ? and put you on a path to heroin/like dependence

Meanwhile on the internet, more heavy duty opiates are available to anyone who

knows the slang terms to use in search criteria

.hese drugs o the codeine genre are not available in a 6< pharmacy, its swings

and roundabout ? there are drugs that can be bought in the 6


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handed out or Attention Deicit @yperactivity Disorder +n theory, i youve got

AD@D, the medicine will ust correct it But *attention deicit is a slippery concept,

and i you dont suer rom it but simply have a short attention span or get bored

easily then youll be able to concentrate and get high on the medication ? as college

students all over America are discovering And when coming down some o the

symptoms o AD@D will maniest themselves which will help obtain repeat

prescriptions

.he drug culture is so embedded now that ew people seem to be asking how

Michael Jackson, an e5traordinarily wealthy man with millions o adoring ans was

able to withdraw into a lonely, dysunctional e5istence o drug dependency and

delusions Nobody seems to be asking why a man o E8, a health anatic by all

accounts, could die crippled with arthritis, almost blind, with his voice gone

according to some people close to him while others say it was not his voice but his

brain and other internal organs that were ailing and yet in this state he was being

encouraged to believe he could head an e5hausting season o gigs in =ondon that

would be too much or a young and it perormer %ould nobody see he needed help!

6nortunately in the case o Jacko, those close to him seemed oblivious to his

pain, to the act that his lie was not *normal but deeply damaging to every aspect o

his being +t is in act they who having milked dry the cash cow that was their *milk

loving brother, led the witch hunt against Dr Murray, demanding a scapegoat who

could be blamed or Michaels sel inlicted death, the better to e5ploit the dead

mans memory


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Michael Jackson took his prescription drug habit to grotes1ue lengths and

eventually his dream became a nightmare, but his encyclopedic knowledge o pills

was typical o so many @ollywood celebs and rock stars .hat obsession is shared by

countless Americans, %anadian, &uropeans and Japanese or whom pharmacies are

basically candy stores or troubled adults +t does not stop there either #rganised

crime is having a ield day, as the e5plosion in dodgy online pharmacies

demonstrates

+n short, the old dividing line between therapeutic and recreational drugs is

becoming increasingly blurred @ow are we to navigate through the new

pharmaceutical playground! .hats a tricky 1uestionC we need to put in a lot o

mental eort i were going to answer it 'erhaps a riendly doctor could be

persuaded to prescribe something to help us ocus


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Prescrition Pain %illers %ill *ore Americans Than 'eroin And $ocaine

Michael Jackson and Barack #bama the same person!

Michael Jackson ? 2enius #r Nut Job

Dangerous Musings o a Disturbed Mind

+ts A 2reat %areer Move, Britney

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