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There is a BIG difference between being addicted to drugs and using drugs that were prescribe to you to treat a serious spinal cord injury.
She did not have an addiction. She did not go to rehab.
She decided to stop using prescription drugs that were failing her in the treatment of her illness, in doing so she went through withdrawal symptoms.
She is now taking a holistic approach to her injury, using Chiropractic and Acupunctor etc.
It's really not that hard to understand. Not only is it insulting to Paula but to all chronic pain sufferers, to belittle and disrespect not only her illness but her treatment as well.
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I absolutely agree with you that there is a big difference in being a drug addict, and building up a tolerance for pain meds over time when used for chrnoic pain that lead to some level of withdrawal when you stop taking them.
But, Paula has on numerous occasions publicly and on television appeared to be under the influence of something. We can't know for certain that it was because she was misusing pain pills, but can you really fault people for thinking that? Also, from everything I've read about appropriate pain management, an overwhelming majority of people on proper doses of narcotic pain medication don't get a "high" from it when taking it for legitimate pain. And 2 days ago she publicly announced she had been "addicted to pain pills". Her words, not the media's. I have no doubt her addiction started with legitimate use of the pills for chronic pain, but she was in fact an addict. She did have an addiction.
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Thank you for being a shining example of what it means to be a narcissist. Sometimes I need to use people as a reference point for phrases in conversation, and you my friend, are perfect.
xoxo
jath
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POLICE DEPARTMENT - CITY OF JACK BAUER
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@emilyanne: Well, I guess as people get less literate, there's less of a need for copy editors. It all fits in with my theory that we have recently 'peaked' as a species, and we experiencing the decline of civilization, which started roughly with the invention of the motor car. But, just as we recovered after the first the Dark Ages, we will peak again. At least I like to think so.
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Ha! Pot, meet kettle!
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Well no, but they do disqualify her from acting like the morality police. And I'd also ask that these people remember that just because we disagree, doesn't mean we're disqualified from sharing our opinion about her--that she's a bigot and a homophobe who's milking her fame for longer than she should and bottom line doesn't have any idea what she's talking about.
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am i missing something?
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lance, a man who was really and truly in love wouldn't feel that pressure...and even calling it 'pressure' in the first place is a sure sign that you shouldn't be together at all.
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I saw Star Trek last night and it was AMAZING. (And I barely know anything about that franchise.)
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This quote just tickles me. Paris darling, a diary is about documenting your own thoughts, rather that reading what others say about you. You know, those little voices in your head?
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