Singer Admits to Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Posted by azdrugrehabctr on September 20, 2014 under Prescription Drugs | Comments are off for this article

Robin Thicke has had a roller coaster of a year. His song “Blurred Lines” was a huge success. The fan and media attention that he received from the hit single was enough to jump-start a lackluster career, however there have been some serious problems along the way.

Several months ago Thicke’s wife, Paula Patton, left the singer after almost twenty years of marriage. He has recently come out to say that the separation was because of his behavior and that he has also been under the influence of drugs and alcohol. In addition to his substance abuse problems, Robin Thicke is also being sued by the family of Marvin Gaye, claiming that “Blurred Lines” is a copy of “Got to Give It Up”.

During his recent deposition, Thicke admitted that he was so heavily under the influence of drugs and alcohol throughout the making of the song and the press afterwards that he doesn’t remember much. He admits to abusing prescription painkillers like Vicodin and Norco. In fact, Thicke is on the record during several interviews claiming that he helped write “Blurred Lines”, however he now says that it was mostly Pharrell Williams and that he just wanted to share in the credit of having written such a hit song.

Prescription drug abuse is a problem that is being felt throughout the country. Shockingly, children are the most affected by the prescription drug abuse trend. More and more high school children are coming into contact with prescription drugs and the peer pressure to try pills like Vicodin and Norcos is continuing to mount. When singers like Robin Thicke also abuse prescription painkillers what message does it send to our children?

Even with the concentrated efforts of law enforcement, policy makers, health care providers, educators and parents, fighting prescription drug abuse among teens is a losing battle when Hollywood openly admits to abusing the same drugs.