more and more like MJ, all the time, wow.
Imagine that. How many young rock stars have died over the past several from drugs/alcohol mixes?
IF this is true it just adds to the sadness... there is a reason the stuff is called dope...shrinks might have been a better answer...
Way to pile on the dead before they’ve even been buried.
I guess everyone has their personal demons...
That’s a long time to be addicted...
I’m surprised he didn’t die sooner...
I wonder why he never tried to break the habit...
Cremated? No more hip, no more pain.
Opioids can only do so much.
RIP
Playing an instrument is hard.
Doing a good job of playing an instrument is even harder.
Singing while playing an instrument is really hard.
Doing a good job of singing and playing an instrument is even harder.
Writing music is exceptionally hard.
Doing a good job of writing music is even harder.
When you play music, and it’s really good, it’s magical.
It’s like a drug. You want it all the time.
But, it isn’t always good.
Sometimes, the notes or words don’t come like they used to.
Your fingers get stiff and your voice goes.
You want the magic. The people want the magic.
And it’s just not there.
So you look for alternatives, and then you’re done.
Celebrity worship fulfills a need in the lives of vapid, epicurean people. The fact that this guy was an opiate addict will not dissuade them of their fervent devotion and delusions.
More like the "stage fright" was a made up malady as an excuse to use drugs.
I’m kind of surprised that he would need a prescription painkiller for his hip that he had to personally pick up from Walgreens himself if he had channels for getting anything he wanted.
The tragedy of addiction.
BTW, these non violent drug dealers, like the ones I had in my cab too, shouldn’t do any prison.
They should get paid 1000 a month to not sell drugs /s
that really is happening somewhere I think.
Afraid we will all hear the guy was saturated with narcotics
Elvis also died in the grips of addiction to prescription medications.
I thought Jehova’s didn’t use any sort of drugs
yea, this is the person I remember. Prince is not a hero in my book. when he came up with that symbol for his name, he was off the deep end
The problem with opiates used medicinally is that over time a tolerance is reached, requiring a higher dose, for the desired effect. Eventually, for some, a threshold is reached that proves fatal. My sister is trying to get there.
She pesters her doctor for dosage increases at every visit. He refuses, so she just takes more pills. She has some kind of counterfeit way of obtaining additional pills, bridging her supply deficiency until her prescription gets refilled.
What a waste of talent and life.
I met a woman whose son was a major high school sports star - starting on the varsity squad as a freshman. He did amazingly well, and got full ride college recruitment. Towards the end of high school he began to have some issues (I think depression), and admitted to his parents that he’d been using opiates since the first game that he played with the varsity as a freshman. He was very nervous before that first game, and one of the seniors on the team gave him a prescription narcotic, telling him that it would ‘relax him’ for the game. He was 13-14 yrs old at that time. He started using them regularly, and actually played just about every game on opiates.
His parents put him into rehab, and worked very hard with him to turn all of this around. He eventually took the scholarship, but relapsed - bought some narcotics from whomever, and died of an overdose as a freshman in college.
My point is that once down this path, it is a very difficult one to leave. Not impossible, but difficult.
So did the police take prints? (Get it? “Prints”? “Prince”? Ah, never mind.)