It always edifying to be lectured with an opinion devoid of understanding of the nature and power of addiction. My thanks.
Matthew Perry understood he was addicted. It’s not a fatal disease unto itself.
And self-awareness provides invulnerability against addiction’s ravages. Keep going, you’re doing great.
Your lectures on addiction awareness are duly noted. Keep going, you’re doing great.
Every day there are people driving past bars to go to AA meetings. It’s a tough road to travel. Who knew.
I get it, just say no. Easy peasey.
i never said it was easy. i said it was a tough road to travel.
thank you for not quoting him
If it isn’t easy, then it doesn’t make sense to turn him into the villain and try to absolve the others.
When a medical doctor helps procure an illegal drug for their known depressed patient with addiction problems, it’s pretty clear that doctor is at fault. And they are likely doing this with many more people.
And, AFAIK, there’s also no sign he was addicted to ketamine before his doctor willingly gave him more than was allowed for depression treatment. Dealers who get people hooked do deserve the ire. Especially when they admit they were taking advantage of him.
If you’re referring to me I didn’t absolve the others. I agreed with Stratocastor in post 138.
I have changed my mind about him. It wasn’t simply a case of Perry having him pick up the drugs from the dealer, instead:
Iwamasa “admitted to repeatedly injecting Perry with ketamine without medical training, including multiple injections on Perry on the day he died,” the U.S. Attorney says in the release.
So addicts with a ketamine habit don’t inject themselves?
People with personal assistants have them do a lot of things us regular folk do for ourselves. I guess that includes helping them with needle drugs.
BINGO!
I was still practicing when Michael Jackson’s death from propofol misuse was reported. The pharmacy community is STILL gobsmacked about it.
Most likely, any remaining usable veins were out of sight and/or out of reach.
I do think that the story about Stevie Nicks using cocaine, ahem, THAT OTHER WAY is an urban legend. That would probably have led her to a permanent colostomy very quickly.
FWIW, I remember an article by a journalist who interviewed Elvis at length in the final months of his life. The journalist was taken aback, and then disgusted, by how many people in Elvis’s entourage were enabling his addictions just to keep riding the gravy train.
Perry was going to get drugs from somewhere. He demonstrated that level of addiction for at least 35 years.
The people that aided him deserve punishment. But there were plenty of other people that would have supplied him for the right amount of money.
The money he made from Friends was almost a curse. He always had the resources to buy his favorite drugs. His fame gained access to the biggest parties and trendy clubs. The perfect setting to get high.
It looks like the doctor whom the federal prosecutor alleges is the main one responsible has been locked up, at least temporarily:
And, his texts suggest how little he respected his ethical and professional obligations:
According to the indictment, Plasencia exchanged text messages with others involved in the drug sales, sending ones that said: “I wonder how much this moron will pay” and “Lets find out.”
If it wasn’t for Perry’s fame it would likely be just another overdose that wouldn’t even make the news.because it’s an everyday thing.
Of all the people involved I find the Doctor to be the most despicable. Years of education lost to greed. It’s suppose to be a profession dedicated to helping people.
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Arresting the doctors and people who gave him the drugs is fine and I’m glad they will face consequences, , but it doesn’t really solve any of the issues that led to his death.
But I see the point others are making. These people didn’t break into Perry’s house. Perry himself chose to associate with people who supplied him with drugs illegally.
Perry was a co-conspirator not an innocent victim.
He’s already served his life sentence.