Jamie Lee Curtis Calls on Obama Admin to Fight Addiction in Wake of Whitney Houston’s Death
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In a brief but heartfelt opinion piece for the Huffington Post, actress Jamie Lee Curtis uses the occasion of Whitney Houston’s untimely death to frame a call for action against drug addiction on the part of society…and the Obama administration (emphasis added):
Addiction is an epidemic. Much will be written of how sad it is. It is, of course, sad; but it is written into the addict’s manifesto, they will die.
I’m sure all those who party-cipated with an addict before their death will feel badly. I’m sure there are family members who tried everything they knew to divert them from this inevitable path. I’m sure there are those who warned and scolded and begged and pleaded. I am sure there are those who washed their hands of the addict. I am sure there are those who prayed for their salvation.
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Don’t let another famous person die, participate in the media spectacle, the tearful, heartfelt farewells and the blame it on the fame game and not take it into your home and circle of life that surrounds you in your own life. It is not fame’s fault. It is no one’s fault. Do you blame cancer on fame? Do you blame diabetes on fame? It is a disease and like cancer, diabetes and depression, it is everywhere. Alcoholism and addiction is ever present and it wants you dead.
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I hope to hear the drumbeat get louder and louder, a call to arms to face addiction and alcoholism head on, to make the administration take on this epidemic and to utilize the media spotlight on this one addict’s death to create real change.
Curtis‘ column comes at the same time that President Obama’s Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske, has called Whitney Houston’s death a “teachable moment” and — almost exactly as Curtis does — has said the administration should treat addiction as a disease. Video of Kerlikowske’s remarks comes courtesy of The Hill and CBS:
Some observers might wonder if such similarities between an official statement by an administration official and a high-profile celebrity show signs of a coordinated push for more intervention on the issue.
Houston’s death is certainly an easy excuse for the administration to make a renewed push on the several-decades-old War on Drugs.
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Comments (329)
Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:56pmFunny thing is that liberal Hollywood is all about drugs, sex,and whatever makes them feel good. Now a liberal celebrity is asking a liberal president to fight the very scourge that liberals have brought upon themselves. Sorry, mean as it may sound, I have little sympathy.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:06amif you choose to do drugs why should anyone else pay to help you……………….opps we already pay for everything including free phones why not drug treatment
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:08amJAMIE LEE?
WHY don’t you call on Obummer to STOP SPENDING?
Geeze these lefty liberals from Hollyweird!!!!
and another name to add to my list of bozo bollywooders I won’t support
OMG in 2012
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:27amOh please….drug addiction has nothing to do with liberalism. Drug addiction predates liberalism by thousands of years. It is not a purely contemporary problem.
That said, I do think that JLC is a whack-job on this issue.
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:27amYes, drug addiction is as old as humanity. So is the desire to do what one wants and escape the consequences. This is one of the hallmarks of liberalism, both modern and ancient.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:35amThere’s no real way for one person to fight the self destructive nature of another. Furthermore how can a President who’s very actions are destroying the life of a nation save the life of an individual? I think he has to take the rod out of his own eye first.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:42amThe Liberal default; asking the government to do something that everyday people can and should do themselves.
Report Post »StrongWesternbabeluvinherWesternMAN
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:47amHow much and how long do we have to subsidize ‘programs’, grants, advertising, free healthcare and accessories (no more needle sharing so we will supply with sterilized needles, free vaccinations against Hepatitis, …………….HOW MANY FRIGGIN YEARS HAVE WE BEEN AT THIS??????
Report Post »There is nothing wrong with government informing the people about the seriousness of an epidemic….BUT when the government tries to FIX (and steal THE PEOPLE’S $$$ DO IT) human nature after that human has been saturated with evidence based scientific literature, put into layman’s term that a 5 year could understand, THEN it is time that the PEOPLE (rightful owners and decision makers of this UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) to speak and gather all right thinking citizens to denounce this tyranny. We will help those who need help, we will inform those who are ill-informed, BUT we will NOT allow a weakness of human character to become a TOOL for a group of political hacks to destroy this last piece of earth that is free for all living creatures to live on!
Doctor Nordo
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 3:11amNonsense. Plenty of people who would identify as conservative abuse drugs as well.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 4:59amJLC: “Oh, please, almighty obama, please save us from ourselves!
We need more government. We are incapable of being responsible!
Please pass some laws to stop us.”
Puh-leeze, Jamie…
The government’s attack on the family IS the problem!
If anything, we need government to get out of the way so we can bring God back to our nations.
Return “science” to its actual state of being a process by which we seek to understand God’s creation, and stop lying to our children telling them science IS “god”.
Good people DO make mistakes, so this is no cure-all.
Report Post »BUT, it is the root, the core, the FOUNDATION of the solution.
Besides, a Good, Godly people will be there to help each other when they DO fall !
BreeZee
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 5:46amHey Jamie Lee?! How about the Gov stay the hell out of our lives and you pinheaded left hollyweird people take responsability for your OWN DAM ACTIONS! Un like some people in this life, some of us believe in being accountable for ones own actions.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 6:00amJamie, once again, OK? Now lets review … the government can’t do anything right … the federal government is the enemy of the American people … asking the fed to do anything to help any situation is oxymoronic. Now go home, sit down and shut up.
Report Post »May Clark
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 6:38amRaising a strong, well-adjusted child begins the moment a child is born. Even though women‘s libbers won’t agree, all children need to be cuddled and snuggled for long periods of time by their mother. They need an ever present guardian who considers the welfare of the child first in every situation. Before women’s lib, this never was questioned and didn’t need defending or explaining. Why doesn’t anyone ever connect the dots from the breakdown of society to the deplorable way a majority of U.S. children are cared for (or not cared for) today? Yes, there are plenty of women who need to work. But, also there are just as many who could before pregnancy have chosen a much smaller home, a smaller TV, given up lavish lifestyles and taken over the job of guardian of children and guardian of society. If more women who could stay home did, they would be a huge blessing to the women who want to stay home and can’t. We don’t need any more government intervention or useless, money draining programs. Government doesn’t work – determined mothers and fathers can accomplish way more at no cost to the taxpayer. Does anyone ever get what an insult it was to women to be told the government can do a better job than a mother at raising her children?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 7:40amLegalize all drugs and let the users use all they want to. It will thin the herd by killing all the idiots in Hollywood and half of Jersey Shore. If you want to do drugs have at it.
Really…I need a better job and I can see me taking away some coke heads position when he loses his from drug abuse. Yea for the strong! Tough @hit for the users!
The strong and responsible will survive. Let the weak willed die in thier own vomit.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 7:42amjust what the country needs, obama fighting addiction. he would lose a lot of voters if they were not stoned on something.
Report Post »libtardian-refugee
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 7:47amDr. Nordo is correct, Most of my friends are conservative, and most of us still enjoy receational use of drugs, well into our forties and fifties. Don’t take this as a plea for sympathy for those who let the drugs rule and destroy their lives. You bit it off, you can chew it
Report Post »USAF2003
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:23amYour an idiot Jamie, it is someone’s fault! The person that decides to use the drugs, that‘s who’s at fault. Plain and simple.
Report Post »USAF2003
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:25amTo the author…of course it’s a coordinated effort. These toolbags are Baraks buddies.
Report Post »ite
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:35amCan we quit fighting the war on drugs already. Lets just base our drug laws on the country with the least problems with illicit drug use, Amsterdam.
Report Post »Also it’s not like there is no help out there for people with addiction, and the success rate is still only 10%. Lets start fighting another losing battle with the goverment they like throwing money at those.
JRook
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:36amSimilar to immigration it is time to focus on the individuals who benefit the most. And its not the kids on the street corner making the equivalent of minimum wage. With immigration we should fine companies and individuals who hire illegal workers $250,000 per occurrence. There are big money players behind the drug problem in the US. And some of them wear suits, white shirts and seem like honest businessmen. Some of them work for what appear to be legitimate pharmaceutical companies. The drug abuse problem in the US now is prescription drugs provided by physicians and Fortune 500 companies. But of course their just capitalists trying to make a buck.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 9:15amGougral
Spot on
Liberal to Obama “Save us from ourselves”
Report Post »Lisa_jo
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 9:20am@doctor nordo while i agree this isnt a problem that liberal’s started, they have “glamourized” it.
Report Post »rowdygirl
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 10:45amI totally agree with you. Calling on the government to intervene won’t change a thing. Here’s how unsympathetic I feel: Make it all legal, collect sales taxes and let the addicts destroy themselves. It’s going to happen anyway, and at least my tax dollars won’t be used to treat them,(multiple times) arrest them (multiple times)and take care of them.
Report Post »Natural selection will take care of the weakest.
atechgeek
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 10:48amI’m running out of movies I am willing to watch because all of the stars, as it turns out, are FREAKIN’ MORONS !!! I guess I’ll just go fishing from now on.
Report Post »Desert Dog
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:53pmI agree. You reap what you sow. They try to make us all feel so sorry for them when they OD and die or mix booze and pills. What goes around comes around…..
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 6:07pmShe should sit down and eat her yogurt.
Report Post »calikarla
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 6:50pmWe already have society-wide organizations to deal with this kind of situation – - they’re called CHURCHES. Why why why does the government – especially the Federal government – have to be the one to respond to everything??!
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:05pmThe WH will have to start a campaign to
Report Post »Bring Out Your Dead.
The-Monk
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 10:11pmOK Jamie Lee Curtis: let the Feds into the rich and famous homes like yours and dictate what you can and cannot do. Open your lifestyle to the Feds first and tell me how it went later. I’ll keep to myself and not do drugs, not because I’m poor, but because I’m not as stupid as you and the Hollywood crowd. The USA doesn’t need drug addicts like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. We need role models with dignity, honor and clean living. Whitney Houston is singing with the Devil…and she’s home now. What something is; is what it extends. Her life extended death. A death too early but none the less a direct result of her lifestyle. I’m worried about all the young Children that looked up to her as a role model. If SHE couldn’t handle it HOW could they. I guess they will just listen to Rap Cr@p music and while popping a cap, with their Gat, on a corner, where they are at.
Report Post »Thanks for being such a non-drug using, major role model, for the Obama cause. Michele O will make you eat veggies in he11. What you consumed on Earth certainly killed you. Free will IS a bummer and you choose badly.
Callie369
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:26amThis is the two-faced Jaimie Curtis that once said on TV that if her kid was going to smoke pot, she wanted them to do it at home with her instead of out someplace?
How is Dumbama or congress going to stop anyone from taking frugs that is set on doing so? Whiteney had a one in a billion God-given voice and she squandered it. She CHOSE drugs and alcohol. What about all those around her? The so called family and friends who KNEW about her addictions and did NOTHING. I’m sorry Whitney died, but as I said, she CHOSE her path.
John Gibson (on his radio show) had a list 25 PAGES LONG of celebrities that have died or committed suicide while using drugs……..since the 60′s!!!! The majority of those in show business act like worthless alchies, druggies, and live like whores!
Report Post »G.W. Dobbs
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 1:08pmAnother reason to spend MORE GOVERNMENT MONEY that they don’t have. The Progressive/Socialists/Democrats LOVE any “reason”, especially those which make THEM fell like they really can be a Benefit; well, we ALL KNOW how such would go; they would require more and more money every year because the plans fail.
Report Post »Who would Jesus bomb?
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 4:20pmYeah, don’t give these dolts any more ideas to burn truckloads of money. Watch out for troll poop too. Beck and his techies really need to do a better job of keeping the morons out of the message boards. I step in it every time I read the comments.
Report Post »db321
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 11:37amCurtis – Obama doesn’t have time to join the fight against addiction – he is too busy, giving drug lords weapons and an open border so they can bring drugs in.
However, after election when Obama wins and pulls the plug on Welfare, Illegals, Food Stamps and Obama Care – he may have time to fight addiction – after all, when Obama becomes the dictator he is going to cut off ALL that are sucking on his tit. Right now he needs their vote!
Report Post »Pairodocs
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:55pmI’m 50 years old. Since I was a small child, there have been warnings on cigarette packs from the surgeon general. Cigarette companies were banned from advertising on television, we were bombarded with anti-smoking propaganda, and finally, the tobacco companies were held responsible for anyone who even got smelly fingers from cigarettes. Guess what? People are still smoking like chimneys. You can educate, but you cannot legislate behavior. The same basic concept holds for drugs. Educate people starting at a young age, and hope for the best. No matter what, there will always be a certain segment that does these things. Same for overeating. We all know that we should not overeat. The point is, regardless of the vice, no one pushed those drugs into Whitney, no one blew that smoke into the smokers, and no one force feed the obese person Big Macs. No, all of those people are responsible for their own actions, and should be forced to deal with the consequences. Personally, I think that if someone comes down with a smoking, drug, overeating, etc. related illness, that insurance companies, Medicare, and Medicaid should refuse payment, and the doctors should be allowed to get paid up front by the patient. They made their beds. They need to learn to sleep in them.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 3:46pmThings could be worse! A trail program has been started in Vancouver B.C. for alcoholics. IF you register as an alcoholic, the Gubamint, will provide free drinks/alcohol, in an Alcoholics only lounge. Reservations required! And people think our world is going to HELL! How silly!
Report Post »MARANATHA – PLEASE!
PlowMan
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:19pmOh, I have sympathy. The problem I have is the federal government getting involved. A celebrity, a foundation founded by celebrities, or a think tank headed by a well know person getting involved is all ok but to have the feds invoved is just unconscionable. This is a social problem not a government problem. If the state or local governments want to put out PSAs that‘s ok but don’t make law!
Report Post »Bruce_Almty
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 9:17amI’m sure it will come as a shock to Hollyweird when Charlie Sheen dies of an overdose, but Kalifornistan does all it can to stop the use of drugs. Right??? Yeah, Right. LOL
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:10amObama needs to fight his own addiction………to wanting to destroy this country!
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:17amMaking drugs legal will not help the users of crack, coke, or heroin. They will become more addicted, no longer be able to work, then steal from law-abiding citizens to support their habit.
I had a close family member who was an alcoholic. They were told they could no longer see their gr-kids if they didn’t stop. An intervention was held, the person went to a rehab center for 11 days, weekly meetings for 16 months, has been clean for 3-1/2 years. They have no intention of ever drinking again.
People…its all about personal responsibility and realizing that you will ruin your life if you do not change.
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 3:49pmThe call should be to enablers and the co-dependent. The government acts as this agency of enabling in many cases. I hear Jamie’s cry out, and I can understand. Those of you who want to give her grief are ignorant of your own humanity. I have worked with countless numbers of devoutly religious folks who suffer terribly as their children are active addicts, so I know you are not exempt from the ravages addiction causes. The War on Drugs has never succeeded nor will it. As some very wise mother’s pointed out, it starts at home. All you tough and rigid religious rights who believe it is just a matter have being tough and having a strong will, if you have children, most likely contributed to your child’s emotional psychological struggles, whether they lead to addiction in the form of drugs or other abusive measures. No person chooses to be an addict nor would ask for such a life of literal hell on earth. The science supports it as a disease and if you need the neurological imaging of the brain to prove it to you, just google it. 80 % of the people in jail are there as a result of alcoholism and addiction. I could go on to list the massive costs dawned upon pour people as a result of alcohol alone, yet, it is still embraced. Which is fine, but you better look in the mirror if you neglected to tend to your children’s emotional and psychological well being and now disown them for being addicts. I will live my in the field of addiction helping those who suffer.
Report Post »johnsnare
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 3:53pmExcellent, and common sense reply. Drug addiction is personal. A drug addict is responsible for his/her addiction.
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 7:49pmIf the “war on drugs” were a real thing, the federal government would have closed the southern border thirty years ago. Federal drug laws are just another reason for the federal government to syphon money out of our states. The day the federal laws are repealed, drugs will still be illegal where I live….and probably you too!
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:51pmoh good another person abuses drugs and dies and another doctor going on trial. I am personally affected by these pain pill laws my state of wa has some of the worst in the country. as a chronic pain patient with an incredibly painful incurable lifelong disease I now have to pee in a cup and be billed for it every month to get the same pills I have been taking without a problem for 15 years. I am pretty sure it would be easier and cheaper at this point to by medical pot. My fear is that no one is going to want to go to med school for GP now that we are throwing doctors in prison because they are tricked by drug addicts the biggest liars on the planet. anyone concerned about these issues should join and donate to the american pain foundation.
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:17ami grow my own…
can actually move again.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 5:01amHow long do the doctors serve while the Meth cookers get what probation or a monitor on their ankle.
Report Post »May Clark
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 6:45amAnyone who has ever been forced to deal with an addict in their family understands how ridiculous it is to hold others responsible for their behavior. If you can’t even convince an overweight person to cut out sweets and exercise more, how can anyone be responsible for the behavior of an addict? Doctors offices are not the only places drugs are available. When you are an addict, you associate with people who have drugs to dispense. After all these years of hearing about addicts, they are thoroughly uninteresting and not an important issue when all else is going to ruin.
Report Post »libtardian-refugee
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 7:52amMeth cookers don’t hide behind a diploma and license. Cookers also did not go to 10 years of school intended to teach ethics on handing out dangerous drugs. Cookers are trying to pay the rent the way they know how, Doctors who hand out drugs are trying to get their second home paid for
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:09amI am in constant mind numbing pain. I use NO drugs. NONE! If you p@ssies would just man up instead of treating your pain with drugs we would not have a problem.
Legalize them all and let the weak fail and the strong survive!
Report Post »Never Offended
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:46pmWhat are you gonna do? People like to do drugs, & we have been using drugs for thousands of years. Drugs are never going to disappear so I don’t know what anti-drug people are trying to accomplish here.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:55amHow would the CIA make their money?
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 9:18amCurtis asks the government to do something.
It is not like a private person started something like the Susan B Komen foundation to solve something.
You can teach them to read lines, but you can’t teach them to think.
Report Post »cous1933
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:46pmOh no! Whitney Houston died!
Report Post »Government, DO SOMETHING!!
ShyLow
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:28amSantorum would be right on it…he would kill the user before they could kill themselves…Newt and Romney would only lock them up with your tax dollars…The horrible Ron Paul would let people suffer the consequences of their own FREE choices…Ron Paul beleives in free-will like that dude from the Bible
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:57am@ ShyLow
You mean, Judas?
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:32amShiloh
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:46pmIf the “War on Drugs” had ever been a serious effort, the federal government would have closed the borders decades ago.
Report Post »single stack
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 6:25amThe war on drugs is causing more harm to our society than the drugs are.
Report Post »Just4Rocks
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 2:42amThe “War on Drugs” and the southern Border—What a “Hoot”…Blood will be on the Earth, damn those Republicans.
Report Post »honor007
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:45pmStart a Charity for the cause, Jamie Lee. Government would just add more addicts to the roles of the addicted. Government is never the answer. Give that power of helping people to THE PEOPLE!!!
Geesh?
Report Post »karmon7
Posted on April 22, 2012 at 2:29pmJLcurtis is such a hypocrit. I remember her talking about going to her father’s house and doing an eight ball or lighting up a doobie and giggling about it with the interviewer. Now she’s found Jesus? Come on.
Report Post »jekllnhyde
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:42pmHey JAMIE. You and you’re LIB friends should of done something. LIKE GET RID OF HER EX HUSBAND!…..Buy the way, the Obamas are to busy telling parents of a 4 year old, WHAT THEY CAN NOT EAT>>>>> YOU PATHETIC A$$ WIPE!
Report Post »leona6256
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:38pmNo matter how much someone tells someone not to do drugs, if they want to do them, they will. It is the person choosing to take those drugs.
Report Post »I lost two people I know from my youth to death from overdose. Way back when, some kids stooped after smoking pot, these two chose to take heavy stuff. The government cannot be the nanny
MNYukon
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:31pmObama enjoyed some drugs, why would he push to end this?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:41pmThat was my thought also .. you ask a drug user (former?) ?
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:19amGovernment solutions for personal problems…If only there was a canidate running that realized how stupid that sounds
Report Post »Just4Rocks
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 2:51amOh that hurt…was it “H” or Cocaine? Our president enjoyed? Lord knows I like BEER.
Report Post »avgconservative
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:30pmI don’t care who can bring attention to OUR problem. Americans’ problem with drug/alcohol addiction is killing our soul.
If you are buying/selling/consuming illegal drugs, you are a murderer. Your usage causes the Mexican drug wars. Your addiction caused Columbian drug wars. Your usage is costing me, and everyone else in America, thousands of dollars in our lifetime, taking care of people who you are destroying with your addiction/usage.
YOU ARE a murderer.
http://FlipTheLib.com
Report Post »flashlight
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:58pmFrom what’s being reported she died from the legal stuff, prescription drugs and alcohol. They sell that stuff on TV.
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:22amlets take a peek in your medicine closet…
Report Post »get off your dam soap box.
booger71
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:58amHumans have been taking cannabis and opiates for centuries.It is just when the government tried to start and regulate them starting less than a hundred years ago they have become a problem.
Report Post »avgconservative
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 5:30pmRazorhunter, If you think everyone is using drugs, you are as intoxicated with your own self-import as you are with dope. For a person to speak from moral high ground, he has to live it. I do.
You obviously are one of the murderers I am disgusted with. The next time you take a pipe out or roll a joint, or spread a line… think of the orphan children of drug gang parents, you murder.
http://FlipTheLib.com
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:29pmTypical leftist, someone dies and they wanna make more laws and BS regs to protect the imbeciles and idiots from themselves, while everyone else has to suffer their insufferable idiocy to not be in control of their own lives and destiny and always look to the government to solve their own personal responsibility issues.
This woman had all the time and fortune to get herself all the help she needed, and no laws are gonna change one’s own stupidity or disrespect for the one body the Lord gave us for this lifetime.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:46pmyes exactly I am sick and tired of this. why dont we ban cars so many people die in them, give me a break it is getting so old.
Report Post »Messenger4God
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:56pmWell said! Doing drugs, alcohol etc. is a personal choice. God made us intelligent beings with “free will” to decide our destiny/fate. We must be prepared to accept what our choices lead us. Personally, I respect my God-given life and body and try my best to preserve what He has given me.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:30amIs God good?.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfd_1UAjeIA&feature=related
Report Post »AConservative2cents
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 5:50pmI like your icon.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 8:42pm@Horse
Report Post »They won’t / can’t ban autos. They got a dog in that fight!
CatB
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:25pmOH GOD .. now what .. I can’t even buy Activia without feeding into the political left. Jamie Lee Obama was/is? a coke user! Smoker. What else??
Report Post »Collbuzz
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:22amEver heard of testicular feminisation? T-Fem?
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:24pmHey Jamie.Ever heard of personal responsibility?What Houston did,she did of her own choosing.Whats an “administration” going to do?
Report Post »We all have our personal demons.Even you should know that.Overcoming them is the hard part.Government is not the solution.Get real girl.
MrMagoo
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:39pmBetty Ford brought it to light anyways.Luxurious,exciting….for the rich.
Report Post »http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/index.php
pianojan
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:31amMRMAGOO…..I went to the Betty Ford Center. I was a relatively poor person, married to a Lt. in the Aiir Force, living about 90 minutes from the center. It is one of the least expensive treatment programs there was, and they help people who can’t afford to go there. We couldn’t afford for my husband and three kids to go through the family program, so BFC waived the cost, AND paid for my family to stay in a motel close by for the whole week. It is NOT luxurious…….it is a VERY TOUGH program……it is literally boot camp, and it was one of the hardest things I ever did. BTW, tomorrow will be 25 years since my last drink……….I drove myself down to BFC, and checked myself in, even though my then husband tried to sabotage.my determination to get help. I will always be grateful for that place!
Report Post »cobra two
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:23pmAnother crack head assumes room temp and now we gotta get the whitehouse involved. NO THANKS
Report Post »If they had their way we all be on some type of free mind altering drugs. The govt is too involved with
everyones personal life as it is. You want to fight addiction.. SAY NO TO DRUGS. Better yet say
NObama 2012!
CatB
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:29pmOMG 2012 Agree .. and I am SICK of these progressive idiots talking like the government is the solution .. government is the problem .. stay out of my life!
Report Post »MS Patriot
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:00amTypical liberal. I did nothing to help this person, even though I had the opportunity as a fellow entertainer to get in touch with Whitney and help her. So to make me feel better about ignoring someone I could have attempted to help I will use my notoriety as a entertainer to ask the government to step in and do something. So Big Government please step in and take another freedom away from us. Please monitor my house and if you see me smoking crack in the bathroom come and arrest me and put me in prison where I will have easier access to drugs.
The southern border is wide open and the government will not close it to the cartels and their drugs. You can walk across the desert right into our country with no problem. Try to take your family on vacation and they molest your toddler before you get on the plane.
Report Post »The next time one of my children is molested by a TSA agent I will protest by saying. “Excuse me I am a Christian, we do not strap bombs to our children and blow them up!” You must have me confuse with a Muslim.
It‘s amazing the TSA can’t profile who they would search, but the FBI profile unsubs all the time in order to catch a criminal. They even train people on how to profile?
Razorhunters
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:18amright on the money
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:21amme and mine are not allowed on some planes…we knocked their dam teeth out.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:23pmDon’t hold your breath Jamie Lee…the Obama administration supplies Mexican drug cartel with weapons..I think most of Americans know where he stands on drugs
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 12:15amGREAT POINT DAVE!!!
R I P BRIAN TERRY
JamieLee? Why not donate your time to the memorial of Brian Terry?
He died defending the country you live in
FREEDOM isn’t FREE
OMG in 2012
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:23pmLiberal logic…lets legislate addiction and bad behavior away! Libs think they are God. Their ideas are awful, old, washed up, dangerous and ready for the dustbin of history!
Report Post »Got2bRoni
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:22pmWhere is accountability? Whitney decided her own fate.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:20pmSEIU will now inspect all hotel rooms for drug taking patrons, who don’t know how to swim in their bathtubs. They will inspect grade school lunches, during the day for Non Michelle grade lunches
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:19pmWhat epidemic?
Report Post »Alcoholism and drug abuse in washed up musicians ? Actors?
Politicians?
txwheels
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:18pmJamie Lee needs to pull her head out of rear and think about what she said.
She compares Cancer and Diabetes to drug and alcohol addiction. WRONG!
No one consciously chooses to get Cancer or Diabetes. But an addict has to consciously choose to start using drugs and/or alcohol.
The fact is, You use drugs or over indulge on booze and you may die. If you die, there is no one to blame but your self!
Report Post »Callie369
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:25pmJaimie has a lot of guts!!!!! Anyone remember when she was much younger and made public statements that if her kids (also young at the time) decided to smoke marijuana that they would do it with her instead of out somewhere? So Jaimie, we know what you smoked, what elese did you use?
And asking Dumbama to do anything is pretty much worthless. Who would listen to that liar-in-chief?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:17pmShe has an addiction to regular bowel movements, Activia Addiction is no laughing matter.
Looking good Lewis, Feeling good Ray.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:27pmTrading Places … classic .. ;-)
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:15pmWhat an IDIOT!
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:15pmI’d like to see doctors get together and make some kind of data base where only they can access the drugs prescribed by other doctors for one particular patient. Kind of what places like Walgreens does today where they can give a “drug interaction” warning before dispensing medication. It would be kind of like a E-verify for doctors but NOT controled by the gov’t.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:49amOhio has a form of that, an two years ago some doctors had their licenses suspended for over perscribing-I got caught in that mess when I had my knee replaced and they were trying to find something effective for the pain. Still the issue really is CLOSE the friggin border, stop it before it gets here. Bomb anywhere there could possibly be tunnels, do the whole thing as a military manuver. Do it hard, and keep it up, until the cartels turn on each other in frustration. Then get serious about the doctors and record keeping. I really love the idea of bombing the heck out of the border, but I know that’s a dream, no one in Washington has the appropriate body parts to do it.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 9:25amNot on your life buddy.I know it sounds good but will do just the opposite.One doctor decides without proof[paid to bribed to threatened to compliance,given false legal papers to claim sponsorship gaurdianship due to fiduary fraud] that the patient is a drug addict.Perhaps a flimsy excuse something like a simple needle track from regular plasma donation.The person is injured and can’t even hardly get treatment.Any pain meds as an adjunct to treatment would be out the question.
Report Post »Please spare me the rhetoric that this can’t happen.I know with 100% certainty that it can.This certainty is from direct personal experience.
objectivetruth
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 9:30amI expect my comment to her and the other poster to actually show up.Hiding your heads in the sand isn’t going to solve our problems.Its by telling the truth and letting people know what can happen when certain solutions are considered .Your unwillingness to publish it only helps the ignorant stay ignorant.
Report Post »Collbuzz
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:14pmWhitney was the only person who put drugs into her mouth. The war on drugs has existed for decades; how‘s it workin’ for ya? The crusade for PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY needs to start!
Report Post »chfields62
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:40pmThe words personal responsibility don’t exist in the liberal world, everything is always someones else’s fault. You order hot coffee and then burn your lips, its the restaurants fault, if you go out and buy drugs. take too many and die, its the pharmacies fault. You go to the liquor store, buy alcohol, drink to much and crash your car, its the liquor stores fault….it goes on and on…..blame everyone but the one truly to blame….I really liked her as an actress, but she sucks as a person………
Report Post »Dalady
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:11pmLaughed when I read headline, then decades old war on drugs. Hello, come in, McFly?
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 11:18pmWe can call it a sub-war, and they will only steal half as much to fight it forever and ever and ever.
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