Paris Jackson
She warns of “addictive” tablets
Paris Jackson makes an appeal to psychiatrists and doctors.
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In an interview, Paris Jackson urges doctors not to prescribe “addictive” drugs “like candy”.
Paris Jackson (23) makes an urgent appeal to psychiatrists and doctors: they should stop prescribing “addictive drugs” as if they were “candy”, according to the daughter of Michael Jackson (1958-2009) in an interview with “LVR Magazine”.
The 23-year-old calls for a “more precise review process” from the doctors. “Before you prescribe medication to people […] should you check them. That’s important in all sorts of situations, from something as simple as a job to something more complicated like medicine or guns,” Jackson said. “Psychiatrists hand out drugs like candy without really examining the patient,” she says.
“A review can’t hurt,” Paris Jackson said, presumably also in reference to 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 also had problems with drug addiction
Paris Jackson has spoken out regarding her own struggles with prescription drugs in the past. 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 did in 2017 in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine told. 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 (41), 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 following the documentary’s release. She still has “nightmares” and “trust issues,” Jackson said. “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.