There’s a study on just about everything and the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is documenting about as much as they can. And here’s the latest: pop and rock stars are twice as likely to die early as the rest of us with the highest risk of death occurring during the first few years of fame. Artists who landed in the “All Time Top 1000 Albums” were included in the study and it soon became clear that drugs and alcohol account for about 25 percent of the deaths.

Prescription drugs are a particular downfall for the country’s citizens so often in the public eye. They can’t be caught skulking around downtown waiting for the connection on the corner, but everyone goes to the doctor. Getting the prescription you’re hoping for is easy for the famous and maintaining it through multiple doctors isn’t much more difficult. Prescription painkiller addiction in far less favorable circumstances can be overwhelming; it’s no surprise then that pop and rock stars fall victim so easily.

Too bad that treatments like Suboxone and Subutex aren’t filtered into the consciousness of these stars. Chances are that, as high-priced as their doctors likely are, they aren’t licensed to prescribe buprenorphine in any form. I guess fame can’t buy you everything.

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