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Category Archives: Famous Addicts

Beating Depression with My COVID Pandemic Pals: Metallica

Famous Addicts, Music & Pop Culture, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor BezaneAugust 24, 2020

It’s especially important for those of us with bipolar disorder or mental illness to constantly have something to look forward to. If we don’t, it’s easy to slip into a depression or worse. There’s been a lot of live music to be had during lockdown, and Metallica has been at the forefront.

The Miseducation of Demi Lovato — Pop Star Stumbles With Relapse

Famous Addicts, Famous Manic-Depressives, Music & Pop Culture, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor BezaneJuly 29, 2018

Demi Lovato is a bipolar pop star with four top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100. The embattled bipolar addict was hospitalized after a relapse on opioids.

Money Does Not Equal Recovery: Bourdain, Spade, Cobain and the Culture of Celebrity Suicide

Famous Addicts, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor BezaneJuly 27, 2018

Common people do not have a monopoly on feeling hopeless and suicidal. It can happen to anyone, including celebrities. Just because someone may be rich and famous doesn’t mean they are at fault for not spending money on treatment to feel better.

SoberHeroes — Betty Ford

Famous Addicts, SoberHeroes, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor BezaneJuly 19, 2018

No name is more synonymous with recovery than Betty Ford. As first lady, she struggled with addiction. She is best known for founding the Betty Ford Center.

Demi Lovato Offers Free Therapy On Tell Me You Love Me Tour

Famous Addicts, Music & Pop Culture, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor BezaneFebruary 3, 2018

Bipolar pop star Demi Lovato recently announced that she will offer group counseling to her fans on show-day, before she sings her first note.

Addiction in America: Tom Petty’s Autopsy and the Opioid Crisis

Famous Addicts, Music & Pop Culture, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor BezaneJanuary 26, 2018

This opioid crisis is of unbelievable magnitude. Twenty-thousand people died of opioid overdose in 2016 — mostly from fentanyl. First it took Prince. Now it’s taken Tom Petty. Petty’s autopsy revealed.

Graphic Novel Review: Who Killed Kurt Cobain?

Famous Addicts, Music & Pop Culture, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor BezaneDecember 6, 2016

This edgy, illustrated black-and-white and occasionally red graphic novel plays out in vignettes from Cobain’s life both before he became famous and after. A must-read for any Nirvana fan.

Soberheroes: Elton John

Famous Addicts, SoberHeroes, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor BezaneAugust 19, 2016

In the 1980s, when AIDS was first emerging, Sir Elton John was a wicked cocaine fiend. But he rose from addiction as a superstar performer and AIDS activist.

Purple Pain: Fentanyl Kills Prince

Famous Addicts, Psych Report, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor BezaneJune 2, 2016

Prince — who suffered from incapacitating hip pain due to years performing in high heels — died from an accidental opioid overdose, the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office revealed Thursday.

Macklemore and Obama Team Up to Tackle Opioid Addiction

Famous Addicts, Psych Report, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor BezaneMay 16, 2016

Recovering opioid addict, activist, and artist Macklemore paid a special visit to the White House on Saturday to talk addiction with President Obama.

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