<![CDATA[Jezebel: oxycontin]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: oxycontin]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/oxycontin http://jezebel.com/tag/oxycontin <![CDATA[Oh Snap: Dowd On Limbaugh]]> "[H]e ripped the president for having 'an out-of-this-world ego,' for being 'very narcissistic,' 'immature, inexperienced, in over his head.' (Isn't immaturity scoring OxyContin from your maid?) It gives new meaning to pot, kettle and black." [NYT]

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<![CDATA[MTV Documentary Reveals Misery Of Pill Addiction]]> In MTV's True Life: I'm Addicted to Meds, one of the subjects is 20-year-old student Evan, an OxyContin addict. In this clip, he and his girlfriend make smoking dope seem really unappealing.

Usually when people get fucked up, they're doing so to forget about the problems in their sober lives. However, Evan and his girlfriend smoke and then have cry fests. It was difficult for me to have much sympathy for him and his situation, seeing as how he is in college, doesn't have a job, and complains about his lack of money while snorting crushed up pills on his iPhone box.

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<![CDATA[The Sordid Song Of Sherry Johnston]]> More details are emerging about Sherry Johnston, the grandmother of Bristol Palin's baby on the way, and her drug arrest for felony charges relating to OxyContin sales.

Sherry's run-in with the law began a few weeks after Sarah Palin — and by association, Sherry's son Levi — hit the national stage. She used the word "coffee" as code for Oxy, and according to the AP:

[In September authorities] intercepted a package containing 179 Oxycontin pills. That led to the arrest of the suspects, who agreed to be informants. According to the affidavit, Johnson sent a text message to one informant on October 1, writing: "Hey, my phones are tapped and reporters and god knows who else is always following me and the family so no privacy. I will let u no when I can go for cof." Ten days after Johnston said there wasn't enough privacy for a drug sale, she texted again to set up a meeting at a store, according to the affidavit. The document says the informant received $800 to make a purchase, meeting investigators later with 10 pills of 80-milligram Oxycontin. A second purchase was made the following day, authorities said. This time the informant wore a hidden camera and a microphone. A third purchase occurred Nov. 26. The informant was wired for the transaction and this time police videotaped the meeting.

Sherry is currently out on bail. Bristol's child was due December 20th, and the press-loving Sarah Palin has been uncharacteristically quiet in the past week or so. It will be interesting to see how the saga of Sarah plays out in the coming months.

Arrest Details On Mom Of Bristol Palin Boyfriend [AP via MSNBC]

Earlier: Wasilla's Finest

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<![CDATA[Girl Scout Robber Stefanie Woods: Sociopath? Or Helpless Victim Of The Terrible Disease Of Painkiller Addiciton?]]> Stefanie Woods is a photogenic 18-year-old whose crime spree has captivated idyllic Palm Beach. If Law & Order taught me anything it's that she's also a sociopath. But see if you think I'm giving humanity too much credit: it all started when Woods, a part-time model, started chatting up a nine-year-old Girl Scout selling cookies outside a Wynn Dixie. Then she had a friend grab the kid's envelope of $168 and ran back to her car. (This crime was convicted as petty theft and has been referred to in media reports as a "ripoff" but I am pretty sure there are states in which you'd call it "robbery," especially if her name had been so curiously spelled by a non-Caucasian parent, but whatevs.) Okay, then she came back to the same grocery store, and bragged about what she'd pulled off. Then she gave the finger to news cameras. She declared her lack of remorse before a camera.

She told a judge she was a drug addict who had taken Xanax, Ecstasy, OxyContin, heroin, coke and LSD, to which the judge replied, "If all that is true, you should be dead," a statement that becomes immeasurably more accurate without its preambulatory clause. She also: skipped out on a Denny's bill — Denny's! thank the deities for poetic justice — and stabbed her boyfriend with a pocket knife and keyed his car...Oh, I don't know, maybe she's just a worthless drug addict. Anyway now she's finally going away, to juvi, and apparently also "crying," and definitely also sporting a fresh set of highlights. Who knows, maybe she will become even more famous in prison. The Mumia Abu-Jamal of our Generation. Then I can die.

Some videos:





Paris Hilton Of Palm Beach Has A Problem [NPR]

Girl Scout Cookie Thief Sentenced [Fox 29]

"You Should Be Dead" [Palm Beach Post]

The Part Where She Skips Out On A Denny's Tab [CBS 12]

Videogum Weighs In [Videogum]

"I Don't Know, Doesn't Everybody Like Money? [Fox 29]

"If Ian MacKaye Were Here, He Would Grab That Frappuccino Out Of Her Hand And Smash It Over Her Head And Say, 'Chill Out'" [Metatribes]

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