On Substance Abuse
“Another day another lean seizure”
America has to admit we don’t have a drug problem we live in a drug culture. The National Institute on Drug Abuse has recorded prescription drug deaths in 2014 at nearly 3 times those in 2001 which is startling especially with the recent passing of Prince. Lil Wayne has recently suffered his fourth publicly known seizure since 2012 with many speculating on the cause being his lean consumption. There is currently over 4,000,000 results on youtube for videos on “how to make lean” a mixture of prescription strength cough syrup and your favorite soda or pop for all you mid-westerners and coke for the southern gentry.
We have to admit we like drugs in America nothing has changed since Ronald Reagan declared war on drugs in 1971. The government has steadily increased spending on the prosecution of drug crimes, drug rehabilitation, and drug use prevention but the situation has not changed. Is this an issue of cognitive dissonance as a nation, are we so bitch made we don’t want to embrace the fact that in a nation were we rank the top party colleges we also like to use party drugs?
I started this post documenting different people in entertainment that have faced issues including death from drug use and abuse but quickly had to change the narrative because this “issue” isn’t isolated to our entertainers the sports players, actors, musicians are a product of our society they didn’t come here from Mars to steal our hearts and use our drugs we birthed them, groomed them, sent them off to school, and yes we also introduced them to drugs. A hand is only as strong as it’s weakest digit and a nation it’s populace. So let’s keep it real and admit who we are America
P.S RIP Mitch Hedberg
SweatPant out…