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Here comes a story from the Department of Obvious. Paula Abdul had an addiction to pain killers. *crickets* *crickets* *crickets*
The only shocking part is that Paula is actually admitting it. Miss "Ahs nevah been drunkz" and "Ahs nevah taken drugz" is actually confessing that she was forever lidocaine's girl. Every back alley pharmacist from here to Phuket is screaming, "Told you so."
Yes, Paula loved the p-killers. The sweet delicious p-killers. She'd eat them for brunch, lunch and dinner. She'd bathe in them before bedtime. She'd cuddle with them at night. And she probably let them kiss her cat a few times. Well, you know she did. Unfortunately, it became a problem and the little Pillhead had to be shuffled off to rehab last November.
In an interview with Ladies Home Journal (via UsWeekly), Paula said it all started years ago when she regularly stuck her ass with lidocaine shots. In 2005, she was diagnosed "reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome" and the pain was so bad that she had to wear a patch that was 80 times more potent than morphine. Paula also took a nerve medication. And a muscle relaxer.
When Paula realized what the world already knows (that she's out of her fucking head), she checked herself into the La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, CA. Paula says, "I could have killed myself. Withdrawal – it's the worst thing. I was freezing cold, then sweating hot, then chattering and in so much pain. It was excruciating. At my very core, I did not like existing the way I had been."
That sounds like every Sunday morning for me. Get yourself some bacon grease and a Gatorade, Paula.
I will say that Paula doesn't seem like she's flying through the stars as much on Idol this year. So maybe she's off the good shit for now. Although, you know she licks that patch every now and again. For special occasions. Speaking of, where oh where can I get one of those patches?! What dealer do I have to call?! That patch sounds like a beautiful thing. I promise I'll be good to it. I'll sing to it. I'll open doors for it. I'll never leave it or do it wrong. GET ME THAT PATCH.
We all should be born with that patch already installed.
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Here is the article I was talking about earlier I mistakenly said was from the AMA for all interested:
Opioid Abuse Less Than Imagined Among Pain Clients
By Rick Nauert, PhD
Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, PsyD on January 21, 2009
Wednesday, Jan 21 (Psych Central)-Over the years a large body of attention has been directed to the prescription of opioid analgesics for patients with chronic pain. Many have voiced concern over risk for addiction.
Current research indicates that these problems are not as common or widespread as many seem to believe.
In an evidence-based review for Pain Treatment Topics , editor Stewart B. Leavitt, MA, Ph.D, summarizes the findings of major research investigations of these problems.
"The research is extensive, but requires careful examination," he notes.
"Unfortunately, news media, government agencies, and others have portrayed abuse and addiction associated with prescribed opioids as problems of much larger proportions than seems warranted by the evidence."
Several comprehensive investigations support this assertion:
In an extensive review, combining results from 24 clinical studies, the overall rate of prescribed opioid analgesic abuse or addiction in patients with pain was about 3.3 percent. However, fewer than 2 out of 1,000 (0.19 percent) patients without a current or past substance-use disorder experienced problems with opioids prescribed for pain.Similarly, a clinical investigation of patients receiving daily opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain prescribed by primary-care physicians found that only 3.7 percent of patients had a confirmed opioid-use disorder. However, whether or not any of these patients also had prior substance-use problems was not examined.
A systematic review, encompassing 17 studies of patients with moderate-to-severe chronic noncancer pain who were treated with opioid analgesics for at least 6 months, found opioid abuse in only 0.4 percent of patients.
Signs of opioid addiction were evident in only 1 case out of 2042 subjects evaluated (0.05 percent). Whether these extremely low rates were in the overall patient population or solely in those patients without prior substance-use problems is unknown.
Estimates of substance-use disorders among the general public range from 5 percent to as high as 67 percent, depending on the population examined; the exact percentages of those disorders involving solely opioids has been poorly defined.
At the least, it seems fairly certain that the rate of opioid-use problems in patients prescribed those drugs for pain would be no greater than in the population at large, according to Leavitt's review. And, according to other experts, the data suggest that news media accusations of increased opioid abuse being associated with greater numbers of patients being prescribed opioids for chronic pain management are unfounded.
This topic is worthy of further investigation and debate; however, the preponderance of available evidence suggests that establishing medical policies or practices in pain management on a presumption of high rates of prescribed opioid-analgesic abuse or addiction could be misguided, resulting in added costs for health care delivery and the undertreatment of pain.
Health care providers can be reasonably assured that only a very small percentage of their patients with chronic pain, if any, will exhibit abuse or addiction when receiving long-term opioid analgesics. And, this would be especially so in those patients who have not experienced substance-misuse problems in the past.
http://rsds.org/5/news/2009/January/PsychCentral_22_155.html
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At least she is not in the denial she was in before. If she can just own up to downing a few cold ones.
Just some info from RSDS.ORG "Physicians do not know why it develops or what causes it, but CRPS/RSD is a nerve disorder that usu. occurs after a traumatic injury, surgery, sprain..etc...The person with RSD/CRPS may look "healthy" but offen suffers from unbearable, unrelenting and burning nerve pain. The McGill Pain Scale rates the pain of people with CRPS HIGHER than that of people with cancer. The patients skin may swell, sweat, change colors, temperature or hurt to the SLIGHTEST touch. Often it is difficult to sleep so they may have trouble with attention and concentration. They are often prescribed a med regimen that involves powerful drugs that affect alertness or attentiveness"...paraphrased.
FOR ALL YOU IGNORANT FUCKS who don't have RSD...it is real, it exists and it fucking destroys lives. Being on Morphine, Norco, Xanax and Soma every day of your life sucks, even when taken totally as prescribed. I would not wish this problem on my worst enemy after having lived with it for the last 6 years...injections of lidocaine, treatments of Ketamine (and no, not popping Special K at a rave for "fun") etc...Yeah, Paula is fun to make fun of, but RSD is no joke.
check out www.rsds.org & maybe educate your ignorant asses!
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For some of the insensitive comments RSD is real! The pain was so bad for me that I had a heart attack and almost a stroke! Fentanyl saved my life until I got clearance for Ketamine (administered monthly in the hospital). I had to go out on disability and I couldn't drive or hardly walk that's how bad the RSD was. It is a real disease. Nothing to poke fun at. My doctors monitored me closely and yes you develop a dependence on the patch but they weaned me off of it in a hospital before I started my Ketamine treatments. Today I can walk on my own without a cane, I still have intermittent pain and have to take Vicodin but it doesn't make me high, the RSD pain takes away any buzz you may have. Hopefully next year after 1 full year of treatments I may be able to return to work after 4 years. My doctors have given me my life back.
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I have RSD; I was diagnosed in: 2007 and I too was on Fentanyl and Vicodin. I see Dr. Schwartzman and Dr. Heiman-Patterson and I recieve Ketamine treatments and I have my life back. Paula can get treatments for her RSD pain. that pain is real and excruciating. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Her doctors suck for allowing her to get out of control. Most patients who suffer from chronic pain do not become addicted to painkillers, I will find the recent AMA article on it and I will post it for you. Most of us take the painkillers only as needed and certainly not for fucking recreation. She's not the only celebrity with RSD I have seen plenty of them here while I was getting my treatments she's living in the Dark Ages.
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gossip in san antonio ~ I am not sure where you are receiving your stats from but they are WRONG! 1 out 100,000 become addicted............bullshit. Maybe 1 out of 100,000 actually admit they are addicted! If you can't put the pain meds down and NEVER use them again, you are addicted.
Addiction is no joke.
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" Paula said it all started years ago when she regularly stuck her ass with lidocaine shots. In 2005, she was diagnosed "reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome & the pain was so bad that she had to wear a patch that was 80 times more potent than morphine. "
No.
It's more likely Miss Abdul got her hands on pain medication after one of her cosmetic procedures.
I have reflex sympathetic dystrophy. I've had lidocaine injections, which btw are only supposed to be administered by a doctor! I'm on fentanyl patches, nerve drugs, shit that ain't fun, shit that would be fun if I didn't have chronic severe pain and spasms. Only 1 in 100,000 people who take pain meds for their prescribed purposed become addicted. We all know Miss Paula has had other issues, and she even swore up and down 3 yrs ago that she had practically eliminated her RSD with an MS drug. If that shit were possible my top of their field docs would have given me the Paula Abdul treatment.
I think she or her docs are full of crap about this diagnosis, and I KNOW RSD is real. I think she needs docs who won't kiss her celebrity ass.
For more info go to rsdhope.org or google complex regional pain syndrome. And research fentanyl. Its safe when used and prescribed correctly.
I can see where Paula would need pain management for physical injury, but damn, she seems way over-medicated on AI
Submitted by woodhorse on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 5:16pm.
Truth. If you cut the Fentanyl patch up in pieces and brew it in hot water and let it stand over night, you can drink it and get an instant high instead of the slow release drowsiness it usually gives.
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breaking the time release barrier on pain medication is very deadly...you see young people try this to get high faster
THIS IS INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS...leads to overdosing
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In 2005, she was diagnosed "reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome"
In 2009, she was diagnosed with "I'm just plain pathetic syndrome".
She was on some GOOD pain meds though.
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Shhhhh! I'm not really here.
The addict is always the last to know. These celebrities always make their addictions sound better by claiming that they started as the result of medical treatment. Hell, even her excuse is d-list.
Sure, folks get sick, but every single junkie celebrity?
Also, much like the sex tapes, commando beaver shots, and nipple slips it seems the ritual admission of addiction is timed to boost a sagging career with a little more publicity.
Much like the plaintif's lawyer, the only bad publicity for a celbrity is their obituary...
paula i love you with all my heart
that drunk interview on tv ("is that what it is???") is the best youtube creation ever
I always prefered to apply my tequila in margarita form.
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Submitted by Sugaroo on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 8:43pm.
Can you get a tequila patch? That would be hot.
*crickets* *crickets* *crickets*
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!! god, I love that man!
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Well Paula hope you are back to being normal....
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Submitted by Sluttsville on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 8:48pm.
What about a tequila i.v.?
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That would get in the way of the lime juice enema.
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Submitted by Sugaroo on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 8:43pm.
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What about a tequila i.v.?
Can you get a tequila patch? That would be hot.
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The pair of moobs that makes a cameo at the 0:45 second was an interesting surprise - MK
I have the lidocaine patches for back pain. I only use them when the pain is REALLY bad. They help with that but don't have any other effect that I have noticed even when I have used two at once at times.
I'm on that fentanyl patch, and trust, you don't wanna be on it. It makes me so nauseous. :(
it's called a duragesic fentanyl patch
they've been used in murder cases before
enjoy!
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Oh, Paula...
In other news, Bears shit in the woods
The pope is Catholic...
And MK has decided he's no longer gay and wants sumadis tigerness....*shakin' da sexay*....
What? What? Bears DO shit in the woods....Not 100% about that Pope thing though...What?
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Crawford, you CONTRACTED a syndrome by breaking your knee? I don't know where to start.
I'm glad I didn't know about these things back when I was popping pills. I gurantee my tolerance was enough to move onto the big boys. And speaking of that time, the syndrome sounds like my withdrawels. If it's so hard to prove, I almost wonder if Paula just named her withrawel symptoms so she could get a scrip.
Fentanyl Pops are the best!!!
ROTFLMAO @ Oxa.
Damnwood - thats a crazy recipe.
I knew 3 people with RSD. All jokes aside it was a serious ailment that usually resulted in drug dependency in 2 of the 3 people I knew.
Paula has probably replaced Fetanyl with Lidocaine patches and is weaning herself off cuz I cant see how she can detox from the Fetanyl at golf club.
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Bravo Paula!
I like you so much more now!
Doesn't she take some shot, something with an H---... I don't know but when she took it on her show it looked painful. It was something for her spine. Poor Paula's all sorts of fucked up (physically).
The only expensive drugs I own are a couple of unopened bottles of Valtrex. Damn! Why can't I get a disease/disorder that commands the good shit.
OMG!! She finally admitted what everyone knew for years.
At least she fessed up I guess.
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My ex-doctor gave me five Fentanyl 50 patches. She told me to cut them in half. I never used them and I think they are now somewhere in my bedroom closet. I didn't even touch them. She was a drug pushing nut, that doctor. She gave them to me in her office without an information on them whatsoever.
Good ole Canadian Health Care. She was my ex-doctor very shortly after that visit.
Submitted by maDalice on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 4:49pm.
Seriously, a fentanyl patch really is a big, big deal. When we put one on a patient for the first time in the hospital, it is policy that we keep continuous monitoring of their oxygen level for the first 24 hours.
!!!! Yes, it is a big deal. Monitoring O2 level is necessary because different people react differently to it - kind of like how some patient's blood pressure drops out with demerol. My son had a Fentanyl patch when he was 8# and 4 months old and was still in pain --- it is supposed to be 100 times more powerful than morphine but he got better relief after the heart surgery and he was back on morphine.
And Paula might have had RSD and so had to take painkillers OR she might have had painkillers and so had to say she had RSD. RSD is very difficult to prove. Kind of like Michael Jackson's invisible "vitaglio" that he required skin bleaching for....
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"Well they be drinking and you know, ain't no good. I don't hang around them. Fact of business, I'm a tell ya the truth, I'm scared of them. So, I stay on this side and they stay on that side."
Truth. If you cut the Fentanyl patch up in pieces and brew it in hot water and let it stand over night, you can drink it and get an instant high instead of the slow release drowsiness it usually gives.
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"Well they be drinking and you know, ain't no good. I don't hang around them. Fact of business, I'm a tell ya the truth, I'm scared of them. So, I stay on this side and they stay on that side."
fentanyl patch ??? WTF
They gave my gramma a fentanyl patch as she was dying of cancer. We couldn't get it for her until the very end!
Damn, Paula!
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Whoa! didn't see that coming.
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy is a disabling disease that often requires extreme pain killing drugs. I hate to bring levity to the table, but I contracted RSD in 1990 when I was working at The Great Movie Ride at WDW and I blew out my right knee at the age of 22. I spent almost 8 years on permanent work disablity with my days spent between doctors' visits and physical therapy. When my RSD went into remission I still had good pain days and bad pain days. Today I am lucky to be able to walk again...and though I love making fun of Paula Abdul as much as anyone else, if it is for a real, untreatable disease that often leads to drug and alcohol dependence for its victims, then I will cut her some slack. I have been there and done that, and it is a sad dark place to be...caught between pain and dependence.
I still wanna know why she went to a spa and not a medical detox programme.
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"That syndrome sounds like a bunch of crap"
You mean, "anything I don't personally suffer from is a bunch of crap", right? Because you are the arbiter of the world.
Sorry, but having gone through some really bad times with a "syndrome" that arrogant college brats thought was a "bunch of crap" only to need four surgeries, I don't think anyone should be saying that someone else's illness is crap, ever.
And I've noticed that people who say things like this are the first to scream and screech when they get sick. Their illnesses are always the worst ever, but everyone else's are lies and malingering.
Seriously, a fentanyl patch really is a big, big deal. When we put one on a patient for the first time in the hospital, it is policy that we keep continuous monitoring of their oxygen level for the first 24 hours.
I gotta get me some of them patches, tout suite.
Fentanyl rocked my world. I was on the 75mg patches for chronic pain and I couldn't make coherent sentences or walk without stumbling. It's not much of a life so I quit taking them. I'd rather be in pain.
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the fact that paula was able to be on any kind of painkiller patch and survived is a true testament to the depths of her addiction.
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fentanyl! that shit is dangerousssss.
a new level of craziness should be name Paula Abdul. the epitome of pure craziness and awesomeness of being paula, vicodine dusts... need i say more?
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Master Blaster ~ Sorry.......that was 2 years ago and the remaining patches I had were given to a friend who had (recently died) pancreatic cancer!