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Posts: 4690 (01/18/08 5:05 PM) Registered User |
I stand by my belief that Paula uses her phantom pain syndrome or whatever she calls it as an excuse to use painkillers. She's so proud of the fact that
she doesn't use recreational drugs, like there's a difference.
And I think you agreed exactly with what I was saying about Jeff. |
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percadans |
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Posts: 528 (01/18/08 5:30 PM) |
I was more shocked at the porn bitch shitting herself.
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Fluffynurse |
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Posts: 12381 (01/18/08 5:35 PM) Registered User |
I still think that both of them have legitimate reasons to be prescribed pain medicine. Jeff just happens to be an addict & can't handle it because he
takes it to the extreme. I'm not sure if Paula is an addict. Only that she acts whacky while under the influence of whatever the fuck she's taking.
As for her pain problem, it seems to be real. She was diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy. You can't fake that.
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Posts: 218 (01/19/08 9:08 AM) Registered user |
Most people that become hooked on opiates (excluding heroin) do get them for a real, most of the time minor, injury at first. Hell the dentist even gives them
out. People trust their doctors and unwillingly become addicted. If you already have an addictive personality & a family history of substance abuse you run
a very high risk of becoming an addict. If you take any kind of opiate everyday for a month or so, you will likely have some form of withdrawal. Most people
don't even realize it, they think they just have a flu bug or something. My problem is with the doctors when they say that opiates "may " be
habit forming. They know all to well just how habit forming they are, yet continue to dish them out. There is no excuse for doctors prescribing 80 mg of
Oxycodone to someone with a sprained back or a broke leg. That amount was originally made for terminally ill cancer patients.
This shit is a big problem & I am glad they are showing how bad the withdrawal symptoms are. Most people think opiate addiction is only in your head. In fact most opiate users don't even really get high from the drug anymore, they continue to use so they don't become sick. There is also an 88% re-lapse rate for opiate addicts so unless you keep yourself in some kind of program there will probably be a relapse. Things don't look so good for Jeff. He will have to change a lot in his life to stay clean, something he doesn't seem willing to do, and it doesn't look like his biggest enabler, his girlfriend, is going anywhere. |
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Jessica A Wakefield |
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Posts: 31 (01/19/08 11:51 AM) Registered user |
Wow lovejones, you've done it all.
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cindidindi76 |
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Posts: 8343 (01/19/08 2:52 PM) Registered User |
Chronic pain sucks, and I do feel bad for people who have it, but it's not an excuse to become a junkie. My Dr. actually told me I should take my Oxy a
little more often, but I won't because I don't want to end up needing them to function. I'd rather have some pain than be an
addict.
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maddogziggy |
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Posts: 53 (01/19/08 4:11 PM) Registered user |
anyone have links to episode 2 (full)
I watched episode 1 on VH1...but it seems they are only putting up highlights and not full episodes from now on |
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Posts: 5740 (01/19/08 4:16 PM) Registered User |
AttaboyJake wrote: That'd be awesome if they just randomly cut her out of the show like they did on Family Matters.
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Fluffynurse |
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Posts: 12390 (01/19/08 4:22 PM) Registered User |
I don't think you stand a chance to become an addict Cindi. You don't have an addictive personality.
An addict will be on pain meds for the right reasons & good intentions then decide that one doesn't work anymore, why not take two. Then two doesn't work anymore let's go ahead & take four. Four gets me buzzed but the pain is still there so I want a drink to take the edge off. It snowballs. Their addictive personalities take over & they start to make excuses & use deception in everything. Relationships crumble. It's very sad. |
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erickman |
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Posts: 19640 (01/19/08 4:52 PM) MESS member |
AttaboyJake wrote: yea baldwin is a jackass but you can not have a celb realty show without a baldwin, wonder when alex will show to goof on his brother. |
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Palangi Girl |
Jeff Conway and his RIDICULOUS "girlfriend" | ||
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Posts: 1 (01/19/08 5:23 PM) |
As far as his accident that hurt his back - he says they "dropped him" - he is the one that rides the engine into the car during Greased Lightning
and that is the clip of the movie they showed when he was talking about it. But he did Taxi for 5 years after that - and he was pretty physical on that show.
He said in the initial show he went to doctors who just shoveled out pain meds for his various ailments. He complains about his knee, his back, etc. He also acts completely crippled when in his wheelchair - but he sure jumped up and went after Baldwin when confronted about the Coke he brought in to rehab, didn't he? Jeff Conway makes me sick. He is in rehab for the money - not necessarily to get clean. He was a complete ASS on Celebrity Fit Club (and he could stand and move around just fine - no cane or wheelchair in sight). What a complete douche this guy is. He romanticizes his drugs, he finds any excuse to justify using, he threatens to kill himself, etc. to try to gain sympathy. Yeah - to all you guys that are going to think I am going to burn in hell for saying this - but he is a complete waste of time and effort. They should have given his spot to someone who actually wants help. He is in treatment and telling Baldwin that he doesn't know if he wants to be clean. Then why the hell did you even show up? Freakin' drug infested idiot - go pop whatever, snort whatever, drink whatever, and get it over with already! And his girlfriend! UGH! Leach!!! This guy has been in a drug stupor continuously since she met him! They have been together everyday for the last 3 1/2 years - so basically she is in love with a drug brain and a snorting, pill popping, alcohol guzzling IDIOT. Yeah right - she doesn't even KNOW Jeff Conway! THAT guy has been long gone for at least a decade. And all she does is help him stay that way while she sponges off of him, lives in his house, and spends his money. In the first episode, when they showed his drug use the week before he entered rehab, she was holding a straw to his nose so he could snort whatever he was snorting because he apparently couldn't do it himself. She is one sick human being to do that - and then claim to "love" that other person! IF he does in fact get clean and stay that way - they will not be together. This is not one of those couples who meet, fall in love, and then become drug addicts. At least those couples have a chance because when they get clean they still have the attractions based in reality. |
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Pumpkin37 |
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Posts: 2130 (01/19/08 10:26 PM) Registered User |
I totally agree about his girlfriend-what a disgrace that you would enable someone to live that way. She should be put in jail. Her holding the straw up for
him to snort was disturbing.
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Pumpkin37 |
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Posts: 2131 (01/19/08 10:30 PM) Registered User |
Fluffynurse wrote: So true. My mom's cousin was like this. He eventually lost a good job, sold his sister's computer for drugs, and ended up divorced because he would do ANYTHING for drugs. He would have ripped the eyes out of your head if he could have got a few bucks selling them. Needless to say no one bothers with him anymore. He's to dangerous to get involved with-even if he claims to be clean at the moment. He had the classic addictive personality-nothing was in moderation. If he lifteed weights, he had to do it every day 5 hours a day, etc. |
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Posts: 8390 (01/20/08 10:10 AM) Registered User |
Baldwin was on a show before this one about his rehab. I can't remember if it was on VH1 or not. Anyway, it was during that show that he met the chef
girl he eventually married. And during that entire show, his counselor talked about how Baldwin can talk the talk and knows what to say, but that doesn't
mean he'll do it necessarily.
He's a little manic when he speaks, like he's trying to drown out his thoughts by talking incessantly. He also seems thisclose to snapping and going into a rage. |
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Blaise214 |
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Posts: 238 (01/20/08 1:29 PM) Registered User |
AttaboyJake wrote: Her initial lack of screentime makes me think she'll make it to the Final 3.
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Mrs Krista Boogie |
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Posts: 1026 (01/20/08 6:11 PM) |
NiceToAnimals wrote: That's part of the Baldwin genetics, apparantly, and thank God for it. It's so damned entertaining. |
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Pumpkin37 |
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Posts: 2133 (01/20/08 6:39 PM) Registered User |
Baldwin is one of those annoying people who loves to hear himself talk. He also knows everything.
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Posts: 2460 (01/21/08 12:01 AM) OMEDETO, CATHY!! |
Mary Carey <3. It's such a shame she didn't win in the 2003 California Governor recall. She is flat out one of the best politicans there is.
Can't wait for her presidential campaign. I'm so voting for her.
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Kitten Gloves |
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Posts: 8624 (01/21/08 1:21 AM) Registered User |
As far as his accident that hurt his back - he says they "dropped him" - he is the one that rides the engine into the car during Greased Lightning and that is the clip of the movie they showed when he was talking about it. But he did Taxi for 5 years after that - and he was pretty physical on that show. I'm pretty sure he did Pirates of Penzance on Broadway after that. The guy is a fucking addict, pure and simple. He needs to do a rapid detox, get a narcan implant, and live life like everyone else. There is NOTHING wrong with his back, period. He was my first HUGE teen-crushy guy, Grease is my favorite movie of all time, and I hate myself for watching this asswipe fuck up the image of Kenickie for me. And his loser gf needs a bullett in her head too. |
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Posts: 930 (01/21/08 9:10 AM) |
Thanks NTA. That makes Daniel a little less skeevy, but not much.
Other great moments so far: Chyna is constantly arranging and rearranging the items on her dresser. OCD much? Jamiee Foxworth cannot sit still. That's why she hasn't been given any screen time. ADHD? Or is that a symptom of the marajuana withdrawl? |
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