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.

[MrLeRoy]

Liar, by inference your request to me to prove that no one reads all 1500 posts says that you believe that they do.

False.

Or why do you make the request if you believe it to not be so?

I make the request because in the arena of reasoned debate, when you make a claim the burden is on you to provide evidence for it.

[MrLeRoy]

Please provide more "evidence." Are you not FAMILIAR with logic man?

What are you jabbering about?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Ya got a point there, Pres my main man - insults only work when the insulted have a sense of shame and/or enough intellect to understand them

[Xenalyte]

Jabberwocky!

[Xenalyte]

You talkin' to me? ;)

[eyespysomething]

You're doing something wrong I guess.

Ha ha! The time is coming. More and more people are realizing they don't want gov't running their lives (especially if they aren't going to start with outlawing spandex). They would much rather worry about porous borders, or islamifasts trying to blow us up, or the job they need. And that scares people like you who cannot trust themselves to do the right thing under their own persuasion.

Did you wear seatbelts before the nannyment told you you had to?

[eyespysomething]

That's cool! ;-)

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Something in me just makes it hard to pass up a good monkeypile, ya know?

[presidio9]

I use no drugs, including the deadly addictive drugs alcohol and tobacco.

Familiar lie: I hate drugs, my body is a temple. Legalize 'em!!!

Obligatory goofy leroy-esque point: You use no drugs? Exlax is a "drug" dammit. You lie!!!

Obligatory goofy leroy-esque demand: Provide evidence that proves you "use no drugs."

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Congrats, as the 1500th poster to this thread you win absolutely nothing.!

[presidio9]

Do you maintain that evidence is divorced from logic? No wonder we're not making any headway with you.

Not at all. In the absense of credible evidence, we are left with logic. Like when you made your goofy request to Jim and he nicely told you to seek help.

[Xenalyte]

It's a LOT of fun, despite the 12-hour days in the 100-degree heat and the 95% humidity, not to mention all that Gatorade. I miss it when I'm not doing it, and now that it's almost here, I can hardly wait to get started.

[presidio9]

I'm paid to perform, much as someone wearing a Mickey Mouse suit at Disneyland.

LOL. God that's pathetic!

[AxelPaulsenJr]

So, you do not believe that all 1500 posts will be read?

[Xenalyte]

You are KIDDING. I'm suing! Where's my prize?

[Xenalyte]

Oh, this one is quite a hoot. Stay around awhile!

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Obligatory goofy leroy-esque demand: Provide evidence that proves you "use no drugs."

LOL

[Xenalyte]

For the record, it was John, not Jim. My short-term memory seems just fine.

Here's what he said.

Kinda, sorta, not really. Our stats program does collect information on the distinct URLs served. However, it doesn't account for paging through a thread (so if you clicked 5 pages on a thread the thread will be 'hit' 5 times) leading to inaccurate counts. And, I don't make the distinct URL information public, anyway.

In what way did he tell me to seek help? Or are you past any coherence you might once have possessed?

[eyespysomething]

12-hour days in the 100-degree heat and the 95% humidity

Are you here in GA also? lol!

[presidio9]

This from the guy who stuck a scholarly pose against "takes one to know one" a few posts ago? When I was in grammar school "your mama" traveled hand in hand with "takes one to know one." If you ever attended school you might realize that.