Posted on 02/27/2018 11:15:03 AM PST by dennisw
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea blames doctors for the opioid crisis as he reveals he was prescribed OxyContin after 20 years clean
Flea, the lead bassist for alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, wrote an opinion piece for Time magazine about his struggle with drugs The performer, 55, born Michael Balzary, got clean at age 30 in 1993 In 2015 he was prescribed OxyContin for a snowboarding injury and got hooked He says that the opioid epidemic is caused by doctors over-prescribing strong medicines and failing to follow-up with patients
Red Hot Chili Peppers bass guitarist Flea says doctors bear much of the responsibility for America's opioid crisis as he reveals that he was prescribed an excessive amount of OxyContin for a snowboarding injury in 2015.
The performer, born Michael Balzary, opened up about his decade-long history with drug abuse in an opinion piece for Time magazine called The Temptation of Drugs is a Bitch. Balzary, 55, writes that he has been around substance abuse since he was a child and had extensive experience with back-alley drug deals in the years before he got clean at age 30 in 1993.
He claims that America's opioid epidemic has an alarming source: the doctors that we've been conditioned to trust more than most other people in our lives.
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There’s an LD50 for air water sugar and salt too
Please name one person in cannibis 5000 plus year history who has died
Of THC overdose
Waiting ..,....
And don’t try to include heart attacks. Nice try
You’re wrong period and your inability to answer this simple question will prove it
There’s 100 overdoses of narcs TODAY
you all who hate pot have it all wrong
You’ve bought the guvmint lies hook line sinker
Now again. Smoking anything is stupid
I’m talking tinctures. Candy. Chocolate
I’m talking 5-10 mg
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