Nowadays American celebrities seem to be killing themselves with perfectly legal substances given to them by their doctors, Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, Heath Ledger & Brittany Murphy all died after taking prescription meds.
I think there are a number of possible explanations for this- American doctors will give really fun/dangerous drugs out to anyone because of the incentives in their health system, the prescription meds thing is a cover story for cocaine overdose or drug dealers have better health and safety procedures than doctors.
I would guess that it's a case of doctors over prescribing drugs, because I doubt that many people in their 20s & 30s really need that much medicine on a regular basis. When the patients can afford to shop around for a doctor who will dish out painkilliers like smarties they will get what they are looking for.
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It depends on how many of those prescription drugs are being prescribed to mask the effects of a fundamentally loony lifestyle in the first place. Chances are, half the time the patient is hanging on by a thread anyway.
In michael Jackson's case several body parts were literally hanging by threads.
"...or drug dealers have better health and safety procedures than doctors."
I could believe that, if it wasn't for that little anthrax addition to the heroin supply!
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