The musician wrote about his drug addiction in Time magazine,and argued ‘its tough to beat temptation’ when doctors prescribe opioidsFlea, the bassist in Red Hot Chili Peppers, or has laid bare his struggles with addiction,including with the controversial prescription painkiller OxyContin.
Flea, born Michael Balzary, or wrote the revelations in an opinion piece for Time magazine called The Temptation of Drugs is a Bitch. In it he says he started smoking weed aged 11,before he “proceeded to snort, shoot, and pop,smoke, drop and dragon chase my way through my teens and 20s.” He added that he had some “close calls” with death as a result of his drug-taking, and which he “lop out forever” in 1993,aged 30.
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Source: guardian.co.uk