Posted on 07/08/2003 2:31:17 PM PDT by 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.
Now there's an interesting position.
Is Ozzy an idiot because he did drugs? Or is Ozzy an idiot because he now says pot leads to other drugs?
So making concrete claims about characteristics of specific populations with no statistical evidence reflects 'common sense'.
Ok. Sure. Thanks for clearing that up.
I know what Stephen Tyler said, "Hey, if you want to go through the Hell I've been through....be my guest!"
There are millions of children out there exposed to the same availability of drugs that Jack is exposed to and they will not become addicts. They know there are limits in the the world. They have had loving parents who take responsibility for their kids and will set limits. Ozzy and Sharon have shirked their responsibility towards their children. Now they are blaiming something else other than themselves -- "it's the drugs." Here's the secret: and it's not the drugs, it's the parents.
It runs counter to my professional experience, but I refrain from making claims that I have no evidence for.
The freeper reefers
Oh, dear. You're really bringing out the big guns now.
I'll use California as an example. Lets say you are caught for simple possession of marijuana under an ounce. You get a ticket.
OK, you've established point A.
Now, lets say you get caught with a pound of marijuana. You go to prison.
And you've established point B.
See where I'm going with this, or should I dumb it down some more for you?
I'm afraid you've made no correlation between the points you make here and your original unsupportable claim.
Try using logic to structure your arguements. It should really clear things up for you.
No psilocybin?
If it weren't for the War on Some Drugs, the dealers would be operating storefronts and paying taxes, if they'd even bother considering how the price of currently prohibited drugs would plummet, and would take someone to court for stiffing them instead of beating them up or killing them.
Don't forget Madonna as "mom of the year"...now she wants respectability after teaching a generation of girls to be tramps. How do these people live with themselves?
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