Ozzy Says He Now Believes Pot Leads To Other Addictions

MTV ^ | 07.08.2003 | Robert Mancini, with reporting by Gideon Yago

[presidio9]

Ozzy Osbourne may have weathered the lowest lows that drug addiction has to offer, but the news that his son Jack was seeking treatment for substance abuse taught him a lesson that his own decades of addiction never did.

"I used to think they should legalize pot, but you know what? They should ban the lot," Osbourne told MTV News, addressing Jack's battle for the first time. "One thing leads to another. Coffee leads to Red Bull, Red Bull leads to crank.

"When I found out the full depth of him getting into OxyContin, which is like hillbilly heroin, I was shocked and stunned," Osbourne continued. "The thing that's amazing was how rapidly he went from smoking pot to doing hillbilly heroin."

Ozzy's son entered a California rehabilitation facility in April to battle what was later revealed to be an addiction to the prescription painkiller OxyContin (see "Jack Osbourne Reveals He Was Addicted To Painkiller OxyContin"). Jack also said that he was drinking and using a variety of substances — including Vicodin, Valium, Xanax, Dilaudid, Lorcet, Lortab, Percocet and marijuana — before his trip to rehab (see "Rehab Helps Jack Osbourne Get To Root Of Addiction Problems").

Jack's laundry list of controlled substances made his father painfully aware of just how readily available drugs are. "When I started doing drugs years ago, they were hard to get, but today it's everywhere," Osbourne said. "It's not just America. It's not just California. It's not just Beverly Hills. It's not just downtown New York. It's not just London. It's all over the world" (see "All About OxyContin, The Pills Known As 'Killers' ").

This relatively easy access to allegedly "controlled" substances is especially hard for Ozzy to swallow given his firsthand experience with the damage that drugs can do.

"I'm 55 years old, and I didn't get off scot-free," Osbourne explained. "I have to take medication for the rest of my life because I've done so much neurological damage to my body," Osbourne said.

We'll have much more from our interviews with Ozzy and Jack in an "MTV News Now" special report, premiering Tuesday at 11 p.m. ET/PT (Jack's complete interview will appear on MTVNews.com when the show premieres). The show will be followed the next day by a repeat of MTV News' "True Life: I'm Hooked on OxyContin" at 6:30 p.m.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Kitty Cats! Now I know why we get along in spite of your WODdie differences.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

My apologies, I meant, "our" differences.

[presidio9]

There you go with your "provide evidence" retreat. That reall is all you've got, isn't it? If you don't believe me, feel free to keep bumping this thread. I' know I don't mind doing it.

[toothless]

"Kitty Cats! Now I know why we get along in spite of your WODdie differences."

You better be careful. Most anti-WOD people only keep cats to eat when they get the muchies and there are no doritos around!

heh

[presidio9]

bumpity bumpity bump

[A CA Guy]

http://www.jhunewsletter.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/04/11/3e95e7d8a6ea7
This refers to your pot issue which you needed evidence provided for.
Now that we agree with each other that pot will never be legal and should be given up, we can work on your proposal to "further restrict" alcohol based on your beliefs MrLeRoy.

[lugsoul]

If you were even slightly tethered to truth or rudimentary logic, I'd point out to you the fallacy you are trying to advance with your post. But you will simply lie in response, as you have no shame and no factual support for anything you say. Later.

[presidio9]

You shouldn't try to use big words, it doesn't become you.

Don't commit the crime if you can't do the time.

And don't pick up the soap.

bump

[A CA Guy]

If you you support the practice of what is read in a Marxist literature, that would be unhealthy for America as would be approving of a misfit drug sub-culture.
We are not talking only the theoretical here, but the ramifications of what becomes practiced by acceptance!

I don't want Marxism or illegal drug use acceptable or practiced.

[commonerX]

My point is that I want the law to be consistent. I would rather see alcohol illegal but I know that will most likely not happen. If the status that we have now with alcohol, even though we are aware of the dangers, is acceptable. Why would pot, which is less harmful, not be justifibly legal. If the law was consistent alcoholics and potheads wouldn't be arguing. It's been stated in these post many times how legalizing will make it less destructive. The biggest I think is that legalizing it will take most of the profit out of it for the gangsters and druglords. I don't believe any more people are going to start using pot just because it's legal. I tried tobacco once and couldn't stand it, never did it again.

[lugsoul]

Rudimentary? Such a big word! Ohhh! Did you miss that one on your vocabulary test this week?

[ActionNewsBill]

Ya think presidio and Dane are the same person?

I doubt it, since presidio hasn't once, to his credit, mentioned the George Soros connection.

[toothless]

He reminds me of roscoe without the crazy talent for citing case law.

[A CA Guy]

Right, you'll believe anything in order to somehow attempt to normalize deviant drug usage.
Not going to happen, they are always remain misfits and criminals.

[eyespysomething]

Um, they are already easy to obtain, hence one reason why the wod isn't working.

Kids using drugs is already going up, even with your Wonderful War on Drugs. That was what I cited, please go back and read it. It was how use is going up anyway.

Oh yeah, that's right. You base what you say on your opinions and not on facts. You feel it, right? Gotta be easier than thinking about it.

Like a kitten batting a ball of yarn....

[Xenalyte]

I have three - Dolly the alpha cat, Spot the lovely and shy feral cat, and Dennis the very kickass boy cat. I'll tell you the acquisition stories sometime.



This is Dennis showing off his belly, of which he is inordinately proud.

The Dread Boston Salty was my Christmas present to Xena's Guy back in 1998.

[Xenalyte]

So asking you to provide evidence is a retreat? I would have eaten your lunch in debate class.

[toothless]

"Not going to happen, they are always remain misfits and criminals."

40% of people in Nevada voted to completely legalize marijuana.

Some people see this as a loss, I don't. I see it as progress.

10% more and we will prove you wrong.

[MrLeRoy]

There you go with your "provide evidence" retreat.

It's no retreat---in the arena of reasoned debate, when one makes a factual claim one acquires the burden of providing evidence for that claim. (This is so because otherwise reasoned debate would devolve into a meaningless exchange of unsupported claims and counterclaims.)

So will you be providing evidence for your claim, or retreating?

[presidio9]

Rudimentary? Such a big word! Ohhh! Did you miss that one on your vocabulary test this week?

Nope, but you sound like a jackass when you need fifty words to say nothing more than "you're wrong." And, by the way, I wasn't.

Here's an SAT word for you: bombastic.