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Celebrities Drugs of Abuse Addiction and Drug Testing

Celebrities Drugs of Abuse Addiction and Drug Testing

Author: Alex Vulfov

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Let I start form the old news reproduction: Heath Ledger's Cause Of Death Made Official It’s taken a couple of weeks, but we finally have a cause of death for Heath Ledger. Hold on to your hat, it’s a shocker: He died from taking too many pills.

I am personally was amazed that people who live with, his friends, co-workers and relatives did not pay attention to his habits. They did not stop him or they did not suspect it? To clarify everything - the best way use drug tesing, untill your friend alive. After death, it is not so important.

Drug addiction is a serious issue affecting millions of people. All too often young and successful lives are ravaged with intense drug abuse and addictions. Addiction leaves devastation and ruin in its path in what could have otherwise been happy and fulfilling lives. This has played out quite publicly for many people in the entertainment industry in the past and continues to be an ongoing issue in the present.

Celebrities and other famous people such as Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton and Brittany Spears continue to show up regularly in the news due to their increasingly erratic and bizarre behavior. The recent death of actor Heath Ledges, dead at just 28 due to an overdose of six different prescription medications that included oxycodone and diazepam (Valium), has also brought the issue once again to the forefront. This is just another sad example in a long list of many whose premature deaths can be attributed to their addictions.

Shannon Hoon, full name Richard Shannon Hoon, was born on September 26, 1967 and was always a high-energy child. He channeled his energy into sports until as a teenager became highly involved in music. His band Blind Melon was signed to Capitol Records in 1991. In 1992, his band released their first album to great success in the United Stated and began a two-year tour.

Shannon became more and more entrenched in drugs and began to exhibit more and more bizarre behavior as time went on. At one concert, he stripped naked onstage and urinated on a fan, which resulted in his arrest for indecent exposure. At Woodstock 1994, he stumbled on stage highly intoxicated while wearing his girlfriend’s dress. He also attacked a security guard the same year at the Billboard Music Awards. Many that knew him described him as overly sensitive and subject to intense mood swings and violent behavior.

Shannon tried rehab twice in 1994 and 1995, but his attempts were unsuccessful. The band was set to tour after the release of their second album while Shannon was still in a rehab treatment program. He negotiated an early release from rehab to promote the album and tour with the band, which had hired watchdogs looking out for him while out on the road. However, they were sent away after just the first week or two, and Shannon’s drug use quickly escalated out of control.

Shannon had previously been quoted as saying that New Orleans is a “city where one’s will power is tested daily.” One afternoon before a concert in New Orleans, Shannon was found dead on the tour bus. He had died of at the young age of 28 on October 21, 1995 of a cocaine overdose. He left his 13-week old daughter Nico Blue behind, and the world lost another talented and successful young person to the power of addiction.

Dana Plato was born November 7, 1964 to a 16 yr old unwed mother already caring for an 18 month old son that gave her up for adoption. Her adoptive parents encouraged her acting career as well as figure skating. At 7 years old, she began appearing in commercials and is said to have been in 100 or more television ads. She also appeared in three feature films and was a professional figure skater.

However, she is most well-known for her years on the show Diff’rent Strokes from 1978 to 1984 in which she played teenager Kimberly Drummond. She overdosed on valium at age 14 and admitted to continued drug use during her years on the show. She was allegedly let go from the sitcom series due to her pregnancy in 1984 as well as increasing problem behaviors on and around the set.

After her time on the show, Dana found it harder and harder to find acting roles and continued down the path of increased prescription drug use and eventual criminal behavior. In 1988, her husband left her and her adoptive mother died, and she really went downhill.

Dana turned to a larger amount of drugs in the years following to cope with her personal problems and failing career. In 1991, she found herself short on money and robbed a video store for around $160 and was quickly arrested. Her criminal record around this time also includes forgery and criminal drug possession. She tried drug treatment and rehab in 1992 and 1993 without success.

On May 7, 1999, she appeared on the Howard Stern show and claimed she had been drug free for 10 years, although all evidence points to the contrary. The following day, Dana and her fiancé were in Oklahoma. While there, she went outside to take a nap in their recreational vehicle and was later found dead.

Dana’s death was due to an overdose of Vanadom (Soma) and Vicodin and was officially ruled a suicide. However, close friends Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges (former co-stars of the show Diff’rent Strokes) stated publicly that they did not believe Dana purposely ended her life but instead felt she had accidentally overdosed due to her addictions and the large amount of medications she had been taking at this stage in her life. Dana Plato died May 8, 1999 and was only 34 years old at the time of her death. Originally America’s cute blond haired television darling, she lost her career, lost custody of her son, turned to criminal behavior, and in the end died financially destitute.

Jim Morrison was born December 12, 1943 and was a poet and writer and also wrote and created a documentary and short film. He’s most well known as the songwriter, singer and front man of the Doors, a popular and highly influential rock music group in the 1960s. Jim was an incredibly talented lyricist and writer and was also well-known for his incredible charisma both on and offstage. His substance abuse began in his teenage years with drinking alcohol, which over time progressed into other drugs and further drinking until he eventually became addicted to both alcohol and other drugs.

Jim called himself the Lizard King and was known to be extremely rebellious and wild and had did not have much regard for the law or any authority. He had a steady stream of arrests due to obscenity, public intoxication and indecent exposure. His erratic behavior and trouble with the law increased over time and included an arrest for out of control behavior aboard a flight as well as the infamous arrest for indecent exposure and inciting riot at a concert.

Jim frequently dropped his pants to urinate in public and often became highly agitated and unpredictable. He became well-known among his peer circle over time for frequently passing out, especially closer to the time of his death. He also had many occasions when he had to be talked down from window ledges when severely intoxicated.

Jim showed up stumbling around at the studio to make what would turn out to be his final recording and recorded what has been called “drunken gibberish”. Jim was found dead a short time later on July 3, 1971 in his bathtub at his home in Paris of a heroin overdose. He and his life companion had moved to Paris to escape the problems he was having with fame and his increasing problems with the law. Pamela Courson was found dead just three years later and also died of a heroin overdose.

All too often young, talented and successful people have been brought down by intense drug abuse and addiction that cuts their lives unnecessarily short. Often drugs are used to deal with stress, loneliness, depression and other personal problems and insecurities. The additional added pressures of fame, money and excess make celebrities particularly vulnerable to addiction.

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