Art Bell cause of death

[Thomas R. Morrison]

Didn't something like that get Tom Petty? Accidental overdose of powerful meds? We surely do have a pill problem in this country. The way that shit is pushed by the Medical Industrial Complex is criminal. Anybody over forty or so has lots of stories.

Yep - Tom Petty died from an accidental overdose of a similar deadly cocktail of prescription drugs:
Tom Petty’s Cause of Death: Accidental Overdose – Rolling Stone

People don't understand how dangerous these drugs are when they interact within your body - they think it's safe because it was prescribed by their doctor. Whatever happened to the Hippocratic oath, "primum non nocere" - "first, do no harm"?

 

[The shadow]

Michael Jackson died from a simular overdose.
He demanded more and more until his body could take no more. he slipped into a sleep he never woke from.

 

[goblin]

I will choose to believe it was an accidental overdose until we hear evidence of a note or the like. I think it's sad, he had a young child.

 

[Standingstones]

Didn't something like that get Tom Petty? Accidental overdose of powerful meds? We surely do have a pill problem in this country. The way that shit is pushed by the Medical Industrial Complex is criminal. Anybody over forty or so has lots of stories.

In Pennsylvania each pain medicine prescription issued is tracked in a database. No more going from doctor to doctor to get multiple prescriptions. If you want long term pain meds you need to see a special ‘Pain Management’ doctor. In my state you have to jump through hoops to get the medicines you need. I can’t say what other states do but it isn’t as simple as it once was. Doctors are very cautious and scared about losing their licenses when prescribing such medicines.

 

[Standingstones]

Didn't something like that get Tom Petty? Accidental overdose of powerful meds? We surely do have a pill problem in this country. The way that shit is pushed by the Medical Industrial Complex is criminal. Anybody over forty or so has lots of stories.

Tom Petty was taking Fentanyl, oxycodone and a few other drugs. Fentanyl is a high power pain medicine prescribed for people with cancer and other high levels of pain. I shake my head when I read such things. Taking a mixture of these drugs is a one way road to the grave.

 

[nivek]

Tom Petty was taking Fentanyl, oxycodone and a few other drugs. Fentanyl is a high power pain medicine prescribed for people with cancer and other high levels of pain. I shake my head when I read such things. Taking a mixture of these drugs is a one way road to the grave.

Fentanyl is extremely dangerous, I think Prince also died of an overdose of Fentanyl...This is one drug that, whilst it may help some people, should not have been created...Now its on the streets being added in a wide range of other illegal drugs and killing off many many more as a result...

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[Rick Hunter]

Michael Jackson had his own live-in Dr. Feelgood, Conrad Murray. Elvis had Dr. Nick. I would bet Tom Petty had one, living down in Florida it wouldn't be a problem to find a former storefront pain clinic doc who needs work. If you're wealthy and want pharmaceuticals you're going to get them, no question about it. I often wonder why Janis Joplin and Scott Weiland used street drugs when they could have gone this route. Surely it would be easier and a helluva lot safer?

 

[The shadow]

Bell lived a hermits life.
his home had a double fence motion detectors cameras. he had few to no visitors and no one was permitted on his property. so no live in doctor for bell.

 

[Standingstones]

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Bell lived a hermits life.
his home had a double fence motion detectors cameras. he had few to no visitors and no one was permitted on his property. so no live in doctor for bell.

With all that security, Bell was unable to determine who fired gunshots near his house in 2015.

 

[Rick Hunter]

I wonder if, after so many years into it, Art went from hosting the show to living it?

 

[Double Nought Spy]

Michael Jackson had his own live-in Dr. Feelgood, Conrad Murray. Elvis had Dr. Nick. I would bet Tom Petty had one, living down in Florida it wouldn't be a problem to find a former storefront pain clinic doc who needs work. If you're wealthy and want pharmaceuticals you're going to get them, no question about it. I often wonder why Janis Joplin and Scott Weiland used street drugs when they could have gone this route. Surely it would be easier and a helluva lot safer?

Two things:

With all due respect, you obviously weren't there in the 60s.

As for the "personal physician" route being safer, it does not seem to have worked out very well for Michael or Elvis. I'm sure Janis had more fun doing things her own way. Of course I wish she could have stayed healthy and kept working.

 

[humanoidlord]

I don't have enough data to speculate about his final departure from radio, but I do know that Hoagland stuck it out for awhile after Heather took over MitD. Hoagland was the worst radio show host I've ever heard - in fact he was so bad that we used to listen to his show while chatting on BellGab to have fun with just how awful he was: a host who walks all over his own guests because he thinks it's all about him, is the absolute worst. In Hoagland's case, it was downright comical. Anyway, there was no link between Art's final farewell, and Hoagland's ultimate self-implosion - Richard seemed to think that he was going to be the next Art Bell after Art retired for good the last time, haha, but his show was awful and unlistenable. I still get PTSD flashbacks when somebody mentions "hyperdimensional geometry" or "17.5 degrees" - that dude is loonier than a toon =D

sometimes i wonder if that guy is really serious
nothing he ever says makes sense and then he tries to apply some bizarre filters to moon images expecting to see something normal

 

[Rick Hunter]

Two things:

With all due respect, you obviously weren't there in the 60s.

As for the "personal physician" route being safer, it does not seem to have worked out very well for Michael or Elvis. I'm sure Janis had more fun doing things her own way. Of course I wish she could have stayed healthy and kept working.

Yes, I'm a '78 model so you are correct there.

 

[Double Nought Spy]

Saying it was a different world back then doesn't quite cover it.