{"id":1180,"date":"2009-04-24T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2009-04-24T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T12:21:08","slug":"ozzy-says-he-now-believes-pot-leads-to-other-addictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/04\/ozzy-says-he-now-believes-pot-leads-to-other-addictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Says He Now Believes Pot Leads To Other Addictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a name=\"ozzy\"><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span>Ozzy Says He Now Believes Pot Leads To Other Addictions<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>Ozzy Osbourne may have weathered the lowest lows that drug addiction has to offer, but the news that his son Jack was seeking treatment for substance abuse taught him a lesson that his own decades of addiction never did.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>\u201cI used to think they should legalize pot, but you know what? They should ban the lot,\u201d Osbourne told MTV News, addressing Jack\u2019s battle for the first time. \u201cOne thing leads to another. Coffee leads to Red Bull, Red Bull leads to crank.\u201cWhen I found out the full depth of him getting into OxyContin. which is like hillbilly heroin, I was shocked and stunned,\u201d Osbourne continued. \u2018The thing that\u2019s amazing was how rapidly he went from smoking pot to doing hillbilly heroin.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>Ozzy\u2019s son entered a California rehabilitation facility in April to battle what was later revealed to be an addiction to the prescription painkiller OxyContin. Jack also said that he was drinking and using a variety of substances \u2014 including Vicodin, Valium, Xajiax, Dilaudid, Lorcet, Lortab, Percocet and marijuana \u2014 before his trip to rehab.Jack\u2019s laundry list of controlled substances made his father painfully aware of just how readily available drugs are. \u201cWhen I started doing drugs years ago, they were hard to get, but today it\u2019s everywhere,\u201d Osbourne said. \u2018It\u2019s not just Beverly Hills. It\u2019s not just downtown New York. It\u2019s not just London. It\u2019s all over the world\u2019 .This relatively easy access to allegedly &#8216;controlled&#8217; substances is especially hard for Ozzy to swallow given his firsthand experience with the damage that drugs can do.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>\u201cI\u2019m 55 years old, and I didn\u2019t get off scot-free,\u201d Osbourne explained. \u201cI have to take medication for the rest of my life because I\u2019ve done so much neurological damage to my body,\u201d Osbourne said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>Source:MTV News Aug 2003<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ozzy Says He Now Believes Pot Leads To Other Addictions Ozzy Osbourne may have weathered the lowest lows that drug addiction has to offer, but the news that his son Jack was seeking treatment for substance abuse taught him a lesson that his own decades of addiction never did. \u201cI used to think they should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,11,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-use-various-effects","category-effects-of-drugs","category-legal-sector","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}