Nikki Sixx Speaks On Opioid Crisis

Nikki Sixx has opened up about the ongoing opioid epidemic happening throughout the US. Sixx struggled with heroin addiction through much of his youth and early adulthood and says that sobriety, while challenging, is ultimately the best path for an artist.More »

By on October 29, 2017

Nikki Sixx has opened up about the ongoing opioid epidemic happening throughout the US. Sixx struggled with heroin addiction through much of his youth and early adulthood and says that sobriety, while challenging, is ultimately the best path for an artist. “When I was coming up, so far as I know, there were no pill forms of heroin. If there were, I was never introduced to it – thank God. But a lot of people that are dealing with addiction right now, they’re dealing with it on a pain-pill level, and it’s being prescribed to them usually for a good reason – for dealing with pain itself. But then when they’re overprescribed and insurance companies are lax in following up on who’s getting these prescriptions filled and how many prescriptions can be filled at a time. I know CVS recently talked about only releasing one week worth of pain pills at a time so that people can’t abuse them and can’t also sell them to people who are.” he says. He adds: “You know, they are in high demand, they’re very expensive, and when people can’t get these pills, they’re then going to the street. Then you’re dealing with needles and unregulated drugs, and you have a lot of overdoses there as well with the medications being prescribed.” Copyright(c) 2017 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «