Hunter on Trial
...in the claustrophobic environment of a trial, it seems it's still permissible to treat the consequences of this complex, multifactorial chronic disorder as simply the result of some poor soul’s irresponsible decision-making.
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A Comical Convocation
I’m never quite sure what sobriety means to a celebrity drug user – is it total abstinence from all drugs?
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A Parable of Addiction from Deep Space
What interested me was that this episode was first broadcast in 1988 – around the beginning of the prescription opioid epidemic.
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Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden!
Yes, it’s horrifying to read about the exploits of addicts in the grip of addiction — it’s horrifying for many of them, too — but is it something we should use against them, for purely political advantage?
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Accidents Happen
His death was an accident in the sense that nothing was found to suggest he intended to die.
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Flavor Flav’s New Flavor
…nowadays Flavor Flav is repping the sober life. Calling on today’s rap artists to “do better when it comes to depicting drug use in their lyrics.”
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Another Actor Talks Recovery
Maybe they just saw it as none of their damn business, so long as he showed up on time and didn’t embarrass them. It’s the sort of accommodation people make all the time in response to someone else’s excessive drinking in a social or work situation.
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First Person: A “Friends” Story
Not an unusual path for the disease to take. That year of deliberate abstention indicates that Perry was aware that his problems were growing worse.
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Mike Tyson Goes Psychedelic
Mike insists that everybody who knows him has commented on how much better he seems since he started up with the toad venom. Of course, I’m not sure how often people are willing to openly contradict Iron Mike.
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“Omar coming”
Michael K. Williams’ death came years later, but was equally unglamorous. Unintentional, the result of a combination of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and p-fluorofentanyl, an analog most people have never heard of.
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A Simple(?) Case of Drunk Driving…
Many hospitals are notoriously lax about testing, and if you really are injured, who can blame them?
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David Crosby’s Genes
Besides, it’s probably a vulnerability to addiction that’s in the genes, rather than the disease itself, and that crosses generations.
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Simon Pegg’s Story
As control erodes, the drinker redoubles efforts to regain it. Some resort to “white-knuckle” abstinence, giving up alcohol for a while, just to prove to themselves or someone else that they can.
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