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.

[eyespysomething]

Watch out, he's gonna call you a pothead (lol)


at least I haven't seen loserdopian yet here.


Where is dennisw?

[A CA Guy]

Actually the WOD was helped by the WOT! Mexico is having so much trouble getting their drugs here that they have started drugging their own citizens and we have Mexico mad at us for that happening which I find to be both ironic and funny.

Law enforcement against illegal drug use is great.
Keeping youngsters as far as possible from illegal drug use rather than giving it accessibility helps reduce the growth of addiction at a bare minimum.
I agree though that they could always do better.

[MrLeRoy]

http://www.jhunewsletter.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/04/11/3e95e7d8a6ea7 This refers to your pot issue which you needed evidence provided for.

That is just, as I said, more "correlation proves causation" BS.

Now that we agree with each other that pot will never be legal and should be given up,

We agree on no such thing.

we can work on your proposal to "further restrict" alcohol based on your beliefs MrLeRoy.

No, a ban on alcohol is the logical corrolary of YOUR beliefs. I believe in letting adults make their own non-rights-violating choices (even if the choices they make are stupid).

[lugsoul]

"(This is so because otherwise reasoned debate would devolve into a meaningless exchange of unsupported claims and counterclaims.) "

There are at least two people on this thread who have no problem at all with this kind of exchange.

[MrLeRoy]

If I support the right to read Marxist literature, am I "backing" Marxist literature?

If you you support the practice of what is read in a Marxist literature

Learn to read; I said nothing about supporting the practice of Marxism.

[MrLeRoy]

<yawn> More "correlation proves causation" BS.

Right, you'll believe anything

Backwards---YOU'LL believe piss-poor "research."

[presidio9]

Provide evidence that proves me wrong. Better yet, show me how many new people have jumped into this thread since we started. Trust me, a tiny percentage gets past the headline. Or don't trust me. I care not. I am confident in my position, and you know it to be true as well.

[lugsoul]

"bombastic"

No surprise to anyone that you'd pick that one.

[eyespysomething]

Kids have accessibility now. The WOD isn't working. You cannot find any statistics that support it. I dare you.

And we can keep our kids away from drugs by ourselves, no need for the government

[presidio9]

Riiiight. Would that be before or after your lengthy Dungeons and Dragons session?

[toothless]

More logical bombs from presidio9!

[ActionNewsBill]

Wrong. I don't really care if you die. Really. I care about the harm that your drug use will cause others.

First of all, I admitted no drug use other than caffeine, and second, I said nothing about wanting to die.

Either A: you didn't read my post 792 or B: you didn't grasp the words in my post or C : you replied to someone else's post by mistake.

Any way you slice it, that makes you an idiot

[presidio9]

You mean like the idea that less kids will smoke pot when it is legal? I don't remember me or Axel saying that!

[presidio9]

There are five or six of you idiots. I don't have time to read all of your posts. I'm just looking to keep bumping this article.

[Xenalyte]

Back to the insults, are we?

You know, you're not showing your side in a very positive light. Refusing to provide evidence paints your case as quite weak.

[presidio9]

bump

[toothless]

If we are able to eliminate all drug use by placing a police officer in front of everyone's house to search them when they leave and enter would it be worth it?

[toothless]

And there are two of you idiots.

lol.

[lugsoul]

Immediately identified yourself as the subject?

I don't know where you got that one. Not from me.

But I do know where such gems as "pot was never legal," "we don't put kids in jail for smoking pot," and alcohol is not a drug" came from.

[presidio9]

More logical bombs from presidio9!

Drug users logic: When drugs are legal, less kids will use drugs.