Parents who are addicted to drugs cause their children a lot of pain. These parents often put their addiction above everyone and everything else. It is mindboggling that these individuals would live such a destructive lifestyle, but they do and hurt their loved ones.
According to Psychology Today, “Addiction is a condition that results when a person ingests a substance (alcohol, cocaine, nicotine) or engages in an activity (gambling) that can be pleasurable but…interferes with ordinary life responsibilities, such as work or relationships, even health.”
After reading that definition, Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston come to mind. The two entertainers were addicted to drugs and their children most likely were negatively affected. Parents are supposed to protect their children, but parents who are addicted to drugs are blinded to the misery they cause their kids.
Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 and Whitney Houston passed away February 11, 2012. These stars were extremely talented but allowed their addictions to devastate their lives.
Michael Jackson “spent his final days in a sleep-deprived haze of medication and misery until finally succumbing to a fatal dose of potent drugs provided by the private physician he had hired to act as his personal pharmaceutical dispensary.”
Likewise, “Houston's success was eclipsed later in life by problems with drinking and drugs. She had a long history of addiction to alcohol, cocaine and marijuana, admitting so on television talk shows. She was in rehab as recently as May 2011.”
Houston’s brother-in-law said her death was an accident and not suicide. "She wouldn't have left her daughter like that. She wouldn't have done that to her daughter."
Jackson’s addiction dominated him. Was that the case with Houston? In several weeks, toxicology tests will answer that question.
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