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R.I.P. Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Well that one almost took me by surpirse, then it didn't, R.I.P nonetheless.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman is dead.
He was found in his apartment in Manhattan yesterday.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-found-dead-new-york
Reportedly heroin addiction.
He was found in his apartment in Manhattan yesterday.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-found-dead-new-york
Reportedly heroin addiction.
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Merging threads.
I might as well take this opportunity to rant about the way drug addition is handled in this country. Heroin overdoses have spiked recently because dealers have taken to lacing heroin with Fentanyl, which is a much more potent painkiller and greatly increases the chance of death by overdose. Evidently it shows up because it "makes up" for poor-quality heroin. It is also so remarkably strong that it is extremely difficult to dilute it properly and safely, especially from clandestine makers, and can easily kill someone not habituated to a stronger dose. This mix is therefore much, much worse than pure heroin.
The fact that such a mix can even be sold is a direct consequence of the war on drugs. The result of heroin being illegal is that the consistency and purity of the drug cannot be regulated, and people ingesting or injecting the drug really have no idea what they're taking. Keith Richards managed to avoid overdosing in twenty or more years of using the drug because he always, always used the same amount, but he also was fortunate enough to have a source that provided him with heroin of a consistent purity and potency. With the drug market not being regulated, the drug becomes vastly more harmful, since apart from its addictiveness, it is not particularly harmful to the body when a consistent amount is consistently used (at least, not in comparison to something like alcohol). The difficulty is, of course, in using a consistent amount consistently when you don't actually know what you're getting.
It's also worth noting that addicts frequently overdose when they resume using after stints in rehab (which Hoffman had recently visited) because they may go back to the dose they were using before they cleaned up, which they no longer have the tolerance for.
Anyway, people are inevitably going to use this to call for stricter policing of drugs and whatnot when it's in fact a direct consequence of the war on drugs that we even have so many overdoses, and it pisses me off.
But really, until more details are released we have no idea what happened. A huge tragedy, though. There were few actors in his calibre (Daniel Day-Lewis and Meryl Streep are the only two that come to mind) and I can't even imagine how awful his family must feel.
Incidentally, for Hunger Games fans, I'm reading that apparently the first part of Mockingjay had wrapped filming but the second one hadn't finished yet. Lionsgate released a statement saying that because the majority of Hoffman's scenes were completed, the film can be released.
I might as well take this opportunity to rant about the way drug addition is handled in this country. Heroin overdoses have spiked recently because dealers have taken to lacing heroin with Fentanyl, which is a much more potent painkiller and greatly increases the chance of death by overdose. Evidently it shows up because it "makes up" for poor-quality heroin. It is also so remarkably strong that it is extremely difficult to dilute it properly and safely, especially from clandestine makers, and can easily kill someone not habituated to a stronger dose. This mix is therefore much, much worse than pure heroin.
The fact that such a mix can even be sold is a direct consequence of the war on drugs. The result of heroin being illegal is that the consistency and purity of the drug cannot be regulated, and people ingesting or injecting the drug really have no idea what they're taking. Keith Richards managed to avoid overdosing in twenty or more years of using the drug because he always, always used the same amount, but he also was fortunate enough to have a source that provided him with heroin of a consistent purity and potency. With the drug market not being regulated, the drug becomes vastly more harmful, since apart from its addictiveness, it is not particularly harmful to the body when a consistent amount is consistently used (at least, not in comparison to something like alcohol). The difficulty is, of course, in using a consistent amount consistently when you don't actually know what you're getting.
It's also worth noting that addicts frequently overdose when they resume using after stints in rehab (which Hoffman had recently visited) because they may go back to the dose they were using before they cleaned up, which they no longer have the tolerance for.
Anyway, people are inevitably going to use this to call for stricter policing of drugs and whatnot when it's in fact a direct consequence of the war on drugs that we even have so many overdoses, and it pisses me off.
But really, until more details are released we have no idea what happened. A huge tragedy, though. There were few actors in his calibre (Daniel Day-Lewis and Meryl Streep are the only two that come to mind) and I can't even imagine how awful his family must feel.
Incidentally, for Hunger Games fans, I'm reading that apparently the first part of Mockingjay had wrapped filming but the second one hadn't finished yet. Lionsgate released a statement saying that because the majority of Hoffman's scenes were completed, the film can be released.
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