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.
LOL, I can't argue with perspicacious reasoning like that, I guess.
Bump.
You men drug use harms the user, right.
The drugs do not harm others....drugs are inanimate objects, not capable of doing harm on their own.
Of course you probably believe the same thing about guns. (Guns harm others)
Riiiiight... and, of course, all this will end when we legalize drugs! I love pretend worlds.
OOO, OOO, I know
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed--
Even though this is from the declaration of independence it shows what types of "rights retained by the people" the founders had in mind.
Are you not saying that you want the fed to protect you from drug users?
I am not surprised, since you are currently living in one.
Wrong. It is cited constantly. It is your only dependable argument. You can't prove that pot is not harmful. You can't pot damages the lives of people around it. So you fall back on the "But alcohol is legal" idiocy. Go back and read the thread if you like. There are easliy 20 posts from people implying that I am somehow an alcoholic because I am against legalizing mind-altering drugs. Sheeesh! Your false indignace would be facinating if your cause wasn't so idiotic.
I believe he does. Same with all of the drug warriors.
No different from you calling someone a "pothead", "stoner" or saying "put the bong down" to anyone who is in favor of ending the unconstitutional drug war.
Now have another beer and chill out.
I would never "join the company" of a sad loser like Ozzy.
And I am berating Libertarians here, not fellow Conservatives.
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