Part Seven - Once an Addict Always....?

I think you have pretty good idea now about how i feel towards the addiction promotion campaing that is going on. Because if we look at it we really don’t have any evidence to back up all the addiction claims. All that people do is refere back to 1993 when Michael went into a rehab centre in London. In no way am i denying that Michael used medication like painkillers or had an dependency on painkillers. But what i don’t like about it all is how people forget to mention that Michael had very legit reasons to take painkillers. I mean come on if you are in pain don’t you take painkillers so you can get through the day? And does it make you an addict when you need to use painkillers? We would be mad as hell if somebody pulled the addiction card on us because we had to take a painkiller for legit reasons. But in my eyes it’s not fair to hold somebody’s past or somebody’s legit reasons to take meds against him/her.

Just try to imagne that you burn your scalp with 2nd and 3th degrees burns..It already hurts like hell to just get a 1st degree burn and i can tell you a 2nd degree burn even hurts way more. Burn victems often have to have surgery to correct things because burned skin doesn’t do the things a healthy skin does. Just thinking about these burns and the surgery’s that go with these kinds of burns are legit enough for me to take painkillers.

Than we have the Vitiligo and the Lupus. I got to be honest i don’t know if having Vitiligo hurts all i know about it is that it changes the colour of your skin. Just the way it did with Michael. But regarding to the Lupus well even if it would be just a mild form it can still hurt when it flames up. You can get infection to your joints, lungs etc. Have you ever had an infection to your joints..well all i can say mild or not mild it hurts. You can’t move without hurting. So for me it’s again another legit reason to take painkillers wich have nothing to do with addiction.

We know Michael had backproblems. As far as i know his backproblems go back to 1999 when the bridge came down during Earth Song. I don’t know how many of you saw a clip of that happening but when i saw that my heart skipped a beat or two. And i was really amazed to see that Michael was still on his feet after that. Imagne yourself falling down from that hight and than come down with a bang like that..i already hurt just thinking about it. After the concert Michael was taken to the hospital because he was in pain. Thank god it wasn’t to bad but that doesn’t mean you can’t have backproblems for the rest of your life. That doesn’t mean that after the injury is heald you will never have backpains again. Actually it means your back has a weak spot now and you can easily hurt it again in the future. So also again another perfectly legit reason to take pain medication.

Now i think i named the most important reasons why i believe Michael wasn’t an addict but had a lot of good reasons to take painkillers. He’s human just like every other human on this planet. When he falls he hurts just like we all do, when he cuts himself he bleeds just like we all do. And people have a way of forgetting that Michael was just as we all are HUMAN.

Now you’ve all read that i told you that the chef mentiond she saw Conrad Murray come down with oxygen tanks and the people that interviewd her didn’t bother to ask more questions about that right? I also said that there could be a very simple reason to explain the use of oxygen…i can even give you a simple explenation about the IV during the night and i will do that in a minute.

I first want to tell you that i think the oxygen and IV is a pretty convinient thing to try to convince us it has to with some form of addiction. I know a lot of people who say that it was a strange thing to do. But when you take a good look at Michael’s past and knowing how much energy he put into performing it really isn’t that strange at all.

Let me start with the most easiest thing to explain, the IV. We all know Michael’s always lost a lot of body fluids while he performd. There is no way you can keep the level of body fluids up by just drinking when you loose that much body fluids. So i think that the IV was just a way to make sure he didn’t dehydrate like he did in the past. I mean if we dehydrate we go to the hospital and the first thing that happens is we get hooked up on an IV with fluids. I ask all of you does Michael’s body work different than ours? No it doesn’t does it…so if being on an IV is a normal way for us to overcome a dehydration problem than why wouldn’t it be normal for Michael?

Now let’s continue with the oxygen. I don’t know how many of you have ever paid real good attention on athleets. The people who did must have noticed that a lot of athleets use oxygen one way or another. Just take a look at a skater who just skated 1500 meters during a compition, have you ever seen what they do? They put on a mask with a little pump that contains oxygen. Many people think they use it because those skaters are out of breath, but that isn’t it. The reason they do that is so that the body recoverse faster than without the oxygen. Now compaire Michael’s perfomances with what an athleet does. He just used the same knowledge athleets do…simply use oxygen so the body recovers faster.

Maybe some of you will think what i’ve just said about the IV and Oxygen is a far stretch but let me tell you this. Until today there is no evidence what so ever that Michael was addicted to meds in the days or weeks before he got killed. All we have is rumours from so called friends, turned and twisted stories from the entertainment industry and a doctor saying he fierd Michael becoming an addict to propofol.

If you have looked up things about propofol you will find out that it’s not a drug that people easily get addicted to. The people who get addicted to it usually have to shoot themselves up between 40 and 75 times a day. From what we know Michael was afraid of needles, and nobody ever saw him take anything. So let’s just throw the addiction out of the window right here right now.

Another strange thing is that even though Conrad Murray said he worried about Michael getting addicted to propofol he used all different kind of meds wich are way more addictive than propofol to overcome “this problem”. When you think of it that totally doesn’t make sence at all. Why would you try to get somebody of one type of drugs with a drug that’s more addictive and use that on a person who has a history of being in rehab for having trouble with meds?