...pink cocaine could be classified as a stimulant (MDMA), a psychedelic (the aforementioned 2-CB), and a dissociative anesthetic (ketamine). Along with whatever else the outlaw chemist may have had lying around the lab at the time.
It’s gained acceptance as a remedy for a host of mental health problems, including major disorders.
That’s in spite of the fact that the FDA has yet to approve the drug for the treatment of any psychiatric condition.
I know something about how healthcare professionals are trained to manage medications, and this isn’t it.
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The fact is, about a third of US adults don’t drink at all, or they drink so occasionally as to qualify as nondrinkers. I’ve noticed how difficult it can be for some patients in addiction treatment to believe that.
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These could be interpreted as signs that someone is in the Action stage of change. That’s not a bad place to be, provided you keep at it and don’t give up.
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If we conceive of addiction as a disease, Perry would represent those most vulnerable to it. Very little actual exposure to substances would be enough to trigger that pathology.
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I’m never quite sure what sobriety means to a celebrity drug user – is it total abstinence from all drugs?
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What interested me was that this episode was first broadcast in 1988 – around the beginning of the prescription opioid epidemic.
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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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His death was an accident in the sense that nothing was found to suggest he intended to die.
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…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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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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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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