I am a recovering drug addict, Benzo's were my drug of choice. That said, IMO any doctor who is giving RX's for 3 different Benzo's AND Ambien to anyone but most of all to a drug addict needs to be seriously investigated. Legal drug pusher is all he is. Addiction doesn't just go away and when you are given some other addictive substance, cross addiction often takes place. A drug is a drug.. all she did was switch drugs.. and with the help of a doctor! I would almost feel better about the numerous prescriptions had she been doctor shopping because then it would be only her fault but.. this? To find out she hadn't been doctor shopping? This is also the fault of whoever signed their name to those prescriptions! There is never a reason to give someone that many Benzo's... everything is wrong with it!
I think we all understand that. Even Dr. Drew the other night was saying it's hard to handle something like that because sometimes people really do have a legitimate need. Whitney wasn't going and trying to get benzos, she wasn't doctor shopping. The doctors either weren't of the school of thought that you don't give any drug with addictive qualities to an addict, or they didn't realize she had drugs from another doctor (although it sounds like she didn't have an excessive amount FOR A NORMAL PERSON). Xanax, Valium and Ambien for non-addict might be perfectly acceptable because you would use them at different times. You'd use Xanax for severe anxiety, Valium for less severe anxiety, Ambien at bedtime for sleep. You wouldn't take them all at once or even in the same day necessarily.
Anyway, I just read an article that Cissy Houston is furious with all the stars coming out now saying how much they love Whitney, because she had reached out to some of them and asked for help with Whitney and none of them would help. Don't know if it's true, but interesting if it is. And maybe would explain why Aretha didn't show at the funeral. Maybe she just didn't want to be at the funeral with some what they consider fake friends. In the article it also said Cissy is mad at Clive Davis because he didn't want to put Whitney in rehab because it costs money and Whitney wasn't making any money.
http://www.mygossip565.com/2012/02/exclusive-cissy-houston-speaks-on.html