overdoses.......

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Originally Posted by olive

I just saw Cyndi and she was wearing a platform sneaker ( i refuse to use buzz words ),also Pat Benatar had them too the difference is these ladies wear pants not a dress so it looks cool I have seen Margaret Cho in the same type of solid sole platform but they were combat boots

yeah i saw Cyndi a year ago and she wore combat boots, without any platform on them. Stevie has some similar stage outfits that would go with nice stylish flat boots.

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

If it turns out that Prince died of a drug overdose and Stevie did not is quite shocking and ironic. Stevie told the story that years after he did Stand Back she was sick in bed and refused to give her cough medicine because Prince said he did not want her to get addicted to another substance (or something like that).
Stevie's Thousand Days is written about Prince and some of the lyrics are shocking.... about him dragging her up the stairs, etc. Now looking back to have thought Stevie survived but Prince did not is pretty ironic.

i don't think anyone familiar with opiod issues would call it ironic; just incredibly sad. even people who do everything to fight addiction (in themselves and others!) can succumb.

as we all know, opioids are highly addictive, and even worse for people who have addictive nature to begin with. those stories as well as all recent Paisley Park ones sound very much like Prince did not want to be enabler for anyone. Richard Dashut cites his own addictive nature as one of the big reasons why he doesn't want to have back surgery he so desperately needs - because he thinks he can't risk getting addicted to opioids he would need after the surgery.