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Posted on 05/05/2009 2:08:38 PM PDT by lainie
PAULA Abdul is hitting the stage for a live performance on "American Idol" tomorrow night.
She'll leave the judging to others to sing "I'm Just Here for the Music" -- the first single off an album due out in the fall.
Since she's preparing to return to the music scene, the timing seemed right to bare her soul over the drug habit that she's recently kicked.
For the first time, Abdul reveals how hard it was for her to detox from a 12-year-long painkiller addiction.
"I could have killed myself," she tells this month's issue of Ladies' Home Journal.
The withdrawal was "the worst thing. I was freezing cold, then sweating hot, then chattering and in so much pain. It was excruciating. But at my very core, I did not like existing the way I had been."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Regretfully, there is no General Chat topic "Duh."
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Good for her. Habits (and addictions) are tough to break.
Wonder if the media will treat her with the same ‘’respect’’ they did for Rush
LIMIT? LIMIT? No, they control it as if each pill is made of gold. I have frequent pain from a ruptured disk and from migraines. But, I cannot get a pain medication on a regular basis to control the pain. I have to wait until I am screaming in pain and writhing on the floor. Then, I get enough to dull the pain, but not enough to control it.
At present I live in a country where it is much easier to get the heavier stuff. I am still not addicted but I do have much less pain and I can do things I can't when pain takes my attention.
I am accepting Miss Abdul's statement that she was addicted. But now that she isn't addicted anymore, is she still in pain?
It isn't an addiction when it meets a need.
LOL. Meanwhile, Paula will be extolled in the media for her honesty and her accomplishment while they crucified Rush for the very same problem.
How many months will she stay off the stuff?
I can't agree with you more. I've finally found a doctor after many years who understands this, and I'm forever in his debt.
I just hope and pray the DEA surveilence that goes on behind the scenes and the extraordinary lawsuits by losers who like to sue the Docs for easy money doesn't scare off all the truly compassionate Doctors out there.
FMCDH(BITS)
She’s still not guilty, IMHO.
It’s hard for the little people to get pain medication. Two years ago I had my wisdom teeth out taken in a procedure that was difficult enough that the dental assistant fainted from watching it. I got a weeks worth on pain medication. When I asked for a couple days more, the dentist told me to take Tylenol. I guess Paula goes to a different set of doctors.
As I get older, I’m less convinced that the government and the licensed medical profession should have more say about what goes into my body than I do. I also never understood why my diabetic mother had to get a prescription to buy her needles while the government gave them away for free to heroin addicts.
Exactly. And that is their attitude. We're the little people who don't have their education. Ummm. Not quite right. When the information is available I will study up on it and ask questions so that I can understand what is happening.
You are correct about the needles. That doesn't make sense.
If your family is like mine, there is a standing order for everyone to always get their pain meds filled to the max and ask for more and if lucky, fill that to the max. We horde the meds so that is there if we need it.
Yup.
And by the way? I wasn’t aware that the La Costa Resort & Spa was a drug rehab facility.
Oh yeah! Because it isn’t.
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