Medicines distributed like “sweets”.
Paris Jackson is tough on doctors
03/05/2022, 5:28 p.m
From a young age, Paris Jackson struggled with drug addiction. Now the 23-year-old turns to doctors with an urgent request: “Addictive” drugs should not be prescribed “like sweets”.
Paris Jackson makes an urgent appeal to psychiatrists and doctors: They should stop prescribing “addictive drugs” as if they were “candy,” said Michael Jackson’s daughter in an interview with the “LVR Magazine”. The 23-year-old calls for a “more precise review process” from the doctors. “Before you prescribe medicines to people, you should check them.”
“It’s important in all kinds of situations: something simple like a job, or something more complicated like medicine or guns,” Jackson said. “Psychiatrists distribute addictive substances like sweets without really examining the patient,” she complains. “A review can’t hurt,” says Paris Jackson, presumably also in view of the death of her father Michael Jackson in 2009.
The pop star died of cardiac arrest as a result of a deadly combination of prescription drugs. Paris Jackson has also struggled with drug addiction and has spoken out about her own problems with prescription drugs in the past.
“Nightmares” and “Trust Issues”
After the death of her father, she had a particularly difficult time as a teenager and fell into the addiction trap early on, as she said in a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone magazine. At the age of 15, she was therefore sent to a so-called “re-education” boarding school in Utah for almost two years.
There she is said to have had a similar experience to Paris Hilton, who described her experiences with abuse in such a school in a 2020 documentary. “I was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder,” Jackson wrote on Instagram shortly after the documentary’s release. She still has “nightmares” and “trust issues”.
“There’s a lot going on at schools like this,” says Paris Jackson in the “LVR Magazine” interview. She reports, among other things, of unfair methods and manipulation. Here, too, the 23-year-old calls for a better “verification process” – from the parents who send their children to such schools.