Report: Osbourne Blames Doctor for Drugs [AP... ozzy doped up on tv show]

[truthisfreedom]

ok, maybe we can all imagine a nice, normal English gentleman behind that confusing addled exterior.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/7436785.htm

Report: Osbourne Blames Doctor for Drugs
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - Rocker Ozzy Osbourne claims he was overprescribed a host of powerful anti-psychotic and tranquilizing drugs by a Beverly Hills physician, leading to a 42-pill-per-day habit that also accounted for his perplexing behavior on the hit TV series "The Osbournes."



Osbourne's claim, supported by credit card records and other receipts, was reported Saturday on the Los Angeles Times' Web site.
The 55-year old rock star said he was prescribed Valium, Dexedrine, Mysoline and other powerful drugs, which medical experts asserted were, on its face, not proper for any one patient to take at one time.
Osbourne's doctor, David Kipper of Beverly Hills, has been investigated for overprescribing drugs to other celebrity patients, the newspaper reported.
The California Medical Board moved to revoke Kipper's license last week, accusing him of gross negligence in his treatment of other patients. No action has been taken.

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Osbourne and his manager-wife, Sharon, believe the amount of drugs given to the rocker caused his oft-disoriented behavior on "The Osbournes." The show depicted many instances of Osbourne, glassy-eyed and mumbling, falling or acting in a stupefied, bizarre fashion.
"I was wiped out on pills," said Osbourne, who fired Kipper in September, more than a year after becoming his patient. "I couldn't talk. I couldn't walk. I could barely stand up. I was lumbering about like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. It got to the point where I was scared to close my eyes at night afraid I might not wake up."

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Kipper charged the couple $650,000 for his services until they fired him three months ago, the Times reported. The medications he prescribed cost them an additional $58,000.
Kipper carries a Screen Actors Guild card and has had bit parts in several films, including "As Good As It Gets," "Jackass: the Movie" and "Shallow Hal."
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[joeybee12]

1. Question: Why did it taken them so long to fire him? Were they oblivious

to his behavior? Well, the viewers certainly weren't.

[cthrumatrix]

9. it's so that people accept this as "normal"...like Rush....more spin to

the sheeple so that they think what rush did was "ok"...

How could anyone think this is "news"...this is spin

[MrPrax]

10. Yup...good eye

I think it's spin as well...
Maybe some investigation is going on and the Oz wants to get out in front of the news cycle...
A guy who has admitted to to doing a lifetime of booze and drugs has now claimed that 'perscription' drugs screwed him up...
It seems more likely, he simply 'medicalized' his addiction--which seems fashionable these days.

Whatever happened with his son's rehab?
A druggy dad, druggy kid and they have a popular 'reality' show directed primarily to young people--I would spin it too.

[NashVegas]

11. Same Here! Get Real, Ozzy

This guy spent years in show biz, and knows damn well what it's like to have people offer you all kinds of shit. Why should he think for even one minute that being offered dope from doctors is any different.

[chelaque liberal]

2. ozzie=rush

I think that's beautiful.

[The Zanti Regent]

5. OZZY = RUSH ??????

You got to be kidding.

Ozzy would be fun to listen to on the radio!

[AntiCoup2K4]

3. I had assumed it was the accumulated thirty years of substance abuse...

...that had turned Ozzy's brain to mush, and not current use, as he was supposed to be clean & sober these days. I had always thought Ozzy's speech was somewhat incoherent until I saw an old clip from the early 80's recently and realized just how clearly he spoke then compared to now. Any "doctor" who does this kind of shit needs to have their license pulled and never practice medicine again in any country. This is what killed Elvis Presley, and nearly three decades later it's still going on...

Now I don't think anyone would be surprised to find that Anna Nicole Smith was seeing the same "doctor". Wonder if anyone's looked into that yet?

[rocktivity]

4. Overperscribed, my donkey

Evil Doctor Kipper, a drug pusher in disguise, feeding off the wealth and vulnerability of helpless innocent celebs--yeah, right. I might have fallen for this before OxyRush, but it's just as likely that Ozzy ASKED for the drugs, and Kipper was fired because Ozzy was too far gone. By the way, Sharon, I realize you had medical problems of your own, but did it REALLY take you a year to notice that your own husband was too doped up for even YOUR own good? No wonder you're doing a talk show--you're the only one left in the family that's employable!


rocknation

[acmavm]

8. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Seems like this guy is just an innocent

victim of this evil, scheming doctor. Hell, they didn't want the drugs. And it never even occurred to them that maybe they shouldn't be taking sooooo damn many mood/mind altering substances a day. No, of course not. You're supposed to be totally numb and dead from the neck up. How were they supposed to know that something shaky was going on? Poor guy.

And what about his kid, the one that had to get treatment for substance abuse? He didn't get a clue from that? Poor Osbornes, I feel so sorry for them. Life in the fast lane and all that money is such burden. Of course they're not at all responsible.

[peekaloo]

17. okay I never watched their show but a friend told me

one of the biggest laughs he had over this "shitcom" was the episode where Ozzie realized he was reading his prescription dosage incorrectly. "Oh it's 1 every 4 hours not 4 every hour".

Now that it's not funny it sure seems Sharon(she IS still his manager, right?) is trying to market Ozzie as a sad, pathetic YET innocent dupe......the whole family needs a very long vacation.

[Robb]

6. This is fascinating, actually...

Think about it. Across the political spectrum, apparently viewers/listeners find the drug-addled ramblings of an addict compelling. :shrug:

[bleedingheart]

7. $650,000 for medical care?

Good medical insurance is somewhere around $15K to $24K a year...for us average folks depending upon prior medical conditions and the level of insurance... I guess it proves the rich just don't know how to spend their cash.

Based on those figures the Osbournes are either financially the stupidest people I have ever heard of or Osbourne is a bona fide drug addict who paid those outrageous sums to keep his bad habit under the radar (...which is most likely the reason.)

[AngryAmish]

12. People listen to their doctors

People want to belieive that their md's have their best interest at heart. Rich people, celebrities etc. want to think that they are getting the best care possible and will do anything a sincere looking md tells them to do. (And it does not have to be an md, it an be a counselor, religious leader, etc.)
However, are you telling me that Ozzy Osbourne - the Prince of F'n Darkness - was duped into taking mind altering drugs. Puh-lease. Just like Rush was tricked into taking 400,000 0xycontins.

[realFedUp]

16. and this doctor was notorious for pill pushing

and being investigated the same year Ozzy
went to him

A pox on both their houses.

[rocktivity]

13. Sounds familiar

Osbourne claimed he originally sought Kipper's assistance in June 2002 to kick a dependence on prescription narcotics, and was successfully treated with a 10-day detoxification regiment. But he turned to Kipper again when his wife was diagnosed with colon cancer, and soon was ingesting a host of pills that were allegedly used to treat his anxiety and depression.

Didn't Rush also try to detox with a matter of days? And ended up accomplishing nothing because he didn't address his psychological cravings? And got phyiscally hooked all over again? And why wasn't Dr. Kipper worried about Ozzy getting hooked on perscription drugs all over again?


rocknation

[dusty64]

14. Ozzy wasted,

say it isn't so.

[TeeYiYi]

15. "Valium, Dexedrine, Mysoline" and other powerful drugs...

I'm no physician but these drugs are not narcotics (in the traditional sense of the word) which is what Ozzy's addiction was. I think this doctor was probably trying to help Oz by treating his symptoms as best he could without giving him something for "pain". Mysoline is an anti siezure medication that is being newly prescribed as an alternative to traditional pain medications. Mr. Osbourne is well know to be a pleasure pig and probably ingested these drugs by the bucketful with his philosophy that " if one is good, two (ten) must surely be better". How annoying this story is. It looks like between the 'OxyMoran' and now the Osbourne family, a precedent is being set to blame anyone but self for our overindulgences. Good thing *shrub put a cap on lawsuit awards against his good buddies the prescription companies.

TYY :eyes:

[NNN0LHI]

18. I think everyone up on drug charges should start using the Rush defense

My doctor made me do it.

Don

[Gman]

19. Dexadrine and Valium together

along with the Mysoline (a barbituate for epilepsy)?

Why bother with the Valium and Mysoline if he's going to take speed along with it... assuming medicinal purposes, of course.

Ozzy was basicly prescribed a speed ball.

[truthisfreedom]

20. more like rollercoaster. i think speedball is reserved for opiates and

cocaine. uppers and downers taken in succession was popular around the late 60's... i believe that was the basis for the beginning lyrics for "helter skelter."

Beatles - Helter Skelter lyrics

When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again.

Do you, don't you want me to love you
I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you
Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.

Helter skelter helter skelter
Helter skelter.

Will you, won't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.

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[MinnFats]

21. You're wrong about "Helter Skelter"

That was the Beatles' secret signal to Charley Manson to start killing rich white people in order to set off a race war that would leave Charley in charge of the world.



just kidding. who would ever believe such a thing?