# Lamar Odom found unconscious in a Nevada Brothel **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 14, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605 "2015-10-14T03:11:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/21 "2015-10-14T17:55:21Z")
Over the weekend Odom was rushed to the hospital in Vegas after passing out while apparently [partying with hookers](https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/lamar-odoms-condition-is-being-treated-as-an-164613599.html) for days. I’ve never seen a description such as the one above. It reminds me of [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0euMFAWF8) from the Simpsons. Who would have guessed that the Kardashian was the stable, normal one in their marriage? As a former Laker, I hope he recovers. His career’s probably done for though. He was one of the highlights in those championship teams. His length and quickness and versatility made him hard to guard for his position. I still think he’s a good guy, but he’s got a lot of problems. His family history doesn’t help, and the deaths of his friends doesn’t either. Those were probably the last straw. I just wish more guys are able to just retire into a quiet life instead of trying to maintain the partying lifestyle of their playing days. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/22 "2015-10-14T18:36:56Z")
Jesse Jackson says that Odom is [on life support](http://www.mail.com/entertainment/movie/3887556-latest-rev-jackson-lamar-odom-life-support.html#.7518-stage-hero1-1). ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/23 "2015-10-14T18:46:01Z")
Well, at least he won’t need any embalming… ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/24 "2015-10-14T19:04:05Z")
His basketball career was pretty much already over. He played in Spain last year before finishing the last few games of the NBA season with the Knicks. Hope he can pull through, but he was obviously in a bad place. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/25 "2015-10-14T19:31:40Z")
He was never any good taking it to the hole ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/26 "2015-10-14T22:34:16Z")
What’s herbal viagra? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/27 "2015-10-14T22:41:24Z")
Even if she is not the fattest anymore, she is definitely the ugliest. Can’t they all die in a plane crash so after twelve months in the news we never have to hear about them again? Just Joking… Well half-joking. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/28 "2015-10-14T23:37:50Z")
This seems more appropriate in The Game Room and I’ve merged it with another thread that was here. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/29 "2015-10-14T23:50:09Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > As a former Laker, I hope he recovers. As a human being, I hope he recovers. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/30 "2015-10-15T00:46:20Z")
It gets sadder his Dad, who has enormous addiction issues, was in to see him, and apparently the Kardashians are the closest thing to a family that he’s ever had. How seriously sad is that? ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/31 "2015-10-15T00:51:28Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > That is, literally, why people in Hollywood have eating disorders. When “Lamar Odam might die” almost immediately turns into “wasn’t he married to that fat girl?”. I’m sure people feel wonderful when they read that stuff. It’s what she calls herself- ‘the fat, funny one’- and it’s been a huge part of the show for years. She’s worked extremely hard the last 18 months or so to lose a _lot_ of weight, and the difference is remarkable. She recently had a cover shoot where she said she never thought she could be anything but big, even though she knew she wasn’t healthy. Run a google image search- she was significantly larger than her sisters. It would be ridiculous to not acknowledge it. Incidentally, they’re still married (he’d been dragging his feet about moving the divorce forward), so she is currently making all the medical decisions. Her and her mom are at the hospital. Worse than turning the story into ‘wasn’t he married to the fat girl’ is the fact that the police are talking about charging him if they find cocaine in the brothel room he was staying in. The man is in a coma and might not make it, and they’re pulling blood samples and getting a search warrant- all while acknowledging it might have been a suicide attempt. THAT’s insensitive. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/32 "2015-10-15T00:55:33Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > What’s herbal viagra? There are various types; this is what he was taking: > **[Lamar Odom -- Sex Pills Are Very Dangerous ... Says the FDA](https://www.tmz.com/2015/10/14/lamar-odom-fda-sex-pills-reload-viagra-fda/)** > > Lamar Odom took 10 Reload pills over the course of 3 days before he fell into unconsciousness -- according to people at the brothel -- and the FDA says the pills are so dangerous they've advised consumers to throw them away IMMEDIATELY. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/33 "2015-10-15T01:19:50Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > This seems more appropriate in The Game Room and I’ve merged it with another thread that was here. HUH? really?!!! what is appropriate about putting a tragic case in the game room? taking odds on his survival? yeah he was a player, but he’s in a fight for his life, he’s not in a game at the moment. wtf?:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/34 "2015-10-15T02:20:18Z")
This looks really, really bad… would that he pulls through. **bobkitty** as I understand it the legal-brothel enforcement in Nevada tends to be _quite_ uptight about publicity of illegal substances flowing in the place of business. In any case best outcome would be for him to _ **be able** _ to make it to have a day in court over it. > [@bobkitty](#): > > There are various types; this is what he was taking: > > [http://www.tmz.com/2015/10/14/lamar-odom-fda-sex-pills-reload-viagra-fda/](http://www.tmz.com/2015/10/14/lamar-odom-fda-sex-pills-reload-viagra-fda/) Yes, this is something that is the subject of repeated busts: alleged “herbal supplements” that actually DO contain, besides whatever wonder herb, what in the US are prescription ED products like sildenafil. Mostly Chinese bootleg products, with the famous Chinese quality control practices, repacked and relabeled at the distributor level after importing. Imagine if your chamomille tea were spiked with Ativan or Dilantin or your energy drink with Dexedrine or Ritalin, at unpredictable doses. A 20+ year old regulation makes things sold as “supplements”\<\*\> subject to a much looser standard than things marketed as actual medication. And on top of that of course add how people have this quaint misguided notion that if something’s “natural herbal” it can’t be that harmful. Right. Ask Socrates. So to party I’ll take cocaine to get all wired and booze to get loose but then I’ll take a pile of “_herbal_ supplement” to nourish and strengthen my own natural virility. :rolleyes: \<\*and yes, you’d figure if something is being sold for popping boners, or for relieving an enlarged prostate, someone at the FDA would say wait that’s no bloody supplement, it’s a drug. But (a) it’s based on self reporting and as long as you disclaim that you are not advertising Malady–\>Remedy you’re mostly cool and (b) we don’t have 400,000 inspectors to go after every truckload of every damn concoction in the market.\> ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/35 "2015-10-15T02:27:12Z")
> [@chela](#): > > HUH? really?!!! > > what is appropriate about putting a tragic case in the game room? taking odds on his survival? > > yeah he was a player, but he’s in a fight for his life, he’s not in a game at the moment. wtf?:dubious: We have threads about the illness or death of sports figures or celebrities all the time, and they go in either the Game Room or Cafe Society, depending on the field. The other thread was in Cafe Society. Where it goes depends on whether he’s regarded more as a sports figure or a TV personality. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/36 "2015-10-15T03:25:59Z")
I guess she’ll have to decide when to pull the plug. A tough decision at any time. What a sad waste of a gifted life. [http://www.people.com/article/khloe-kardashian-makes-medical-decisions-lamar-odom-says-goodbye](http://www.people.com/article/khloe-kardashian-makes-medical-decisions-lamar-odom-says-goodbye) > [@](#): > > Though Kardashian and Odom, 35, both signed divorce papers in July, a judgement has not yet been entered into court, meaning they are still legally married – and the reality star is in charge of his medical care, PEOPLE has learned. > > “He never signed a living will, so Khloé is making decisions for him,” the source says, adding it’s “very stressful. She is lost.” > [@](#): > > The Kardashians are preparing to say goodbye to Lamar Odom as he lies in a coma after being found unresponsive in a Las Vegas-area brothel Tuesday night. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/37 "2015-10-15T03:36:14Z")
> [@bobkitty](#): > > . . . > Worse than turning the story into ‘wasn’t he married to the fat girl’ is the fact that the police are talking about charging him if they find cocaine in the brothel room he was staying in. The man is in a coma and might not make it, and they’re pulling blood samples and getting a search warrant- all while acknowledging it might have been a suicide attempt. THAT’s insensitive. That’s how you save the life of an addict. The police are doing what is necessary to be able to keep him in custody and force him into treatment if he wakes up. There is every chance that he will wake up in severe withdrawals and try to go get more drugs. It’s a sad statement, but look at his former\* brother in law\*\* Scott Disick. He’s on his way into rehab for the umpteenth time, with several drug-related ER visits under his belt. He will probably die unless someone can force him into a full six-month rehab. Perhaps Lamar will scare him into it. - Are either of them divorced yet? \*\*Or whatever the kids are calling it these days. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/38 "2015-10-15T03:43:30Z")
Seems very unlikely he’ll wake up if this is accurate. I guess there’s always a chance he’ll beat the odds. > [@](#): > > We’re told an MRI revealed since being admitted to the hospital in Las Vegas Tuesday night, Lamar suffered multiple strokes. It’s unclear if brain damage resulted from the strokes. > > We’re also told Lamar is on a 3-5 hour dialysis for kidney failure. > > Read more: [Lamar Odom Suffers Multiple Strokes, Despite Jesse Jackson's Claims](http://www.tmz.com/2015/10/14/lamar-odom-strokes-kidney-jesse-jackson/#ixzz3obXxh5Bp) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/39 "2015-10-15T10:07:49Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > It’s a sad statement, but look at his former\* brother in law\*\* Scott Disick. He’s on his way into rehab for the umpteenth time, with several drug-related ER visits under his belt. He will probably die unless someone can force him into a full six-month rehab. Perhaps Lamar will scare him into it. _Forcing_ someone into rehab isn’t terribly effective. Generally, unless an addict really makes a personal decision to change they’re going to stay active addicts for life. It’s too bad about Odom, and I wouldn’t wish what Khloe (or however she spells it) is going through on anyone. Having to go through all this under the public eye can’t possibly make it any easier. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605/40 "2015-10-15T13:07:18Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > _Forcing_ someone into rehab isn’t terribly effective. Generally, unless an addict really makes a personal decision to change they’re going to stay active addicts for life. Agreed, that has touched me close. Even when they willingly attend, it’s harder than they themselves expect. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamar-odom-found-unconscious-in-a-nevada-brothel/734605.md?page=3)