Ozzy Osbourne a victim of over-prescriptionWeek after week, people watching the hit reality TV series The Osbournes saw the star in a perpetual stupor...
The sight of the ageing rocker staggering around his mansion, glassy-eyed and mumbling, became a staple of the series, but Osbourne's disorientation was never explained.
It turns out he was on Valium - and Dexedrine, Mysoline, Adderall and a host of other powerful medications. They were all prescribed by a Beverly Hills doctor who, unknown to Osbourne, was being investigated for overprescribing drugs to other celebrity patients.
Prescription records show that David Kipper had Osbourne on an array of potent drugs - opiates, tranquillisers, amphetamines, antidepressants, and an antipsychotic. The singer said he took as many as 42 pills a day.
42 pills a day, eh? Of course, you'd need to be medically qualified to realise that was over-prescription.
Osbourne saw a Boston specialist. "He asked me, 'Where are you getting all these pills from?' Then he just threw everything in the trash."
At his mansion in October, Osbourne spoke and walked normally, showing no hesitation or confusion as he had on The Osbournes.
Sounds like "jumped the shark" to me.
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