Philip Seymour Hoffman Found Dead

[IrishInFl]

This is honestly the first thing I thought of when I read of Hoffman's passing. R.I.P. Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

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[irish1958]

There is a bad mix out there. It is sold as heroin but is a mixture of heroin and fentanyl (which is about 1,000 times more potent). As a result there have been thousands of OD's and hundreds of deaths from this mixture, especially from those who have been off the habit and/or coming off rehab.

 

[GoIrish41]

There is a bad mix out there. It is sold as heroin but is a mixture of heroin and fentanyl (which is about 1,000 times more potent). As a result there have been thousands of OD's and hundreds of deaths from this mixture, especially from those who have been off the habit and/or coming off rehab.

With all the information that is available about how bad heroine is, it is amazing to me that people are willing to try it the first time. I really don't get it.

Hoffman was a tremendous actor and this is a huge waste of talent. RIP.

 

[tadman95]

Terrible news. He was on of my favorite actors. Seemed like he could play any role. I'll miss him.

 

[Irish#1]

RIP PSH

 

[Irish YJ]

just sad...

Hoffman was last seen alive at 8 p.m. Saturday, a law enforcement official said. He was expected to get his children on Sunday, but didn't show up, the official said. Playwright David Katz and another person went to the apartment and found him dead, the official said.

A needle was in the actor's left arm, and eight empty glassine-type bags that usually contain heroin were found in the apartment, law enforcement sources told CNN.

The bags were stamped with "Ace of Hearts" and "Ace of Spades" -- street names for the heroin, the sources said.

 

[Booslum31]

There is a bad mix out there. It is sold as heroin but is a mixture of heroin and fentanyl (which is about 1,000 times more potent). As a result there have been thousands of OD's and hundreds of deaths from this mixture, especially from those who have been off the habit and/or coming off rehab.

It could have been this. Also, after someone goes to rehab and goes a period of time not using and THEN relapses they use the dosage they were using before they went into rehab. This can be deadly and toxic (leading to over-dozes) because their body has not built up the same tolerances they had before rehab.

I'm sick about this/such a waste...loved this guy as an actor.

RIP

 

[palinurus]

5 of Philip Seymour Hoffman's Most Memorable Scenes

Includes a clip from IE Favorite "The Big Lebowski"

 

[Ndaccountant]

With all the information that is available about how bad heroine is, it is amazing to me that people are willing to try it the first time. I really don't get it.

Hoffman was a tremendous actor and this is a huge waste of talent. RIP.

I thought this way for most of my life, until someone close to me had an addiction problem. I learned a great deal on the matter and fully understand how/why people get there. It's very rough and quite sad.

 

[Rhode Irish]

I thought this way for most of my life, until someone close to me had an addiction problem. I learned a great deal on the matter and fully understand how/why people get there. It's very rough and quite sad.

I get how difficult addiction can be, but I guess the question that I have (and the one you were responding to) is how someone could ever put that needle in their arm the first time? Once you've done that, I totally get how hard it is to stop doing that. I just don't understand how anyone could ever think that "trying" it is a good idea. I'm not trying to make light of it or be insensitive, it's just a concept that I have difficulty wrapping my mind around. Everyone knows that if you put that needle in your arm the first time, you're basically sentencing yourself to a long and painful and miserable death, and sentencing your friends and family to having to watch it. I can't imagine how someone could run the cost/benefit analysis on that situation and come to the conclusion that, yes, I should do heroin right now.

 

[rikkitikki08]

Addiction is a bitch, someone extremely close to me was addicted to heroin. Lets put it this way, i never fully understood how addicting drugs were until i saw this person coming down from their high. To this day its the single most heart breaking thing my eyes have ever seen.

 

[Ndaccountant]

I get how difficult addiction can be, but I guess the question that I have (and the one you were responding to) is how someone could ever put that needle in their arm the first time? Once you've done that, I totally get how hard it is to stop doing that. I just don't understand how anyone could ever think that "trying" it is a good idea. I'm not trying to make light of it or be insensitive, it's just a concept that I have difficulty wrapping my mind around. Everyone knows that if you put that needle in your arm the first time, you're basically sentencing yourself to a long and painful and miserable death, and sentencing your friends and family to having to watch it. I can't imagine how someone could run the cost/benefit analysis on that situation and come to the conclusion that, yes, I should do heroin right now.

I can only speak to the one case that I know, but the issue developed long before drugs entered the body. There were some deep emotional issues that pushed this person at a young age to act out. In high school and college, they were into weed and alcohol. From there, it spiraled. It was coke, crack, huffing.....anything really to just make the person not feel. Eventually, there was a suicide attempt that was very real and basically botched (thankfully). From there, there has been a very long road of recovery and I am happy this person has been able to continue life in a happier place.

 

[bigedefense]

I loved the movie Along Came Poly. I was hilarious in it!

"Come on, we have to go!"
"Why"
"I just sharted!"

I hate this. Addiction is horrible, but it could happen to anyone on this board. Here's a good example for ya... One of my former high school football players Dad had back surgery. He was on pain medication, understandably, for several months. When his Dr. started weening him off his meds, evidently "dad" couldn't handle it. He began calling his friends and asking for any extra pain meds they had. After he had exhausted those avenues, Dad started buying prescription pills from a street dealer. Then, the dealer introduced him to herion. Instead of spending $50 for enough pills to get him high for the day, herion could do it for $20.

A long story short, the son, my football player, ended up moving in with my wife and I for 2 years. This is how I learned of all of this. I went to NA meetings with the dad and was, heck I still am, his sponsor. This Dad wasn't some weak minded, lazy bum that one might think. He has his Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and had a very good job. He got swept up in drugs and it is a daily struggle for him still. All of this started 12 years ago. I drove him to rehab 10 years and a month ago. I talked with him after I saw that PSH had died and his words were, "people will be quick to judge him, but I wonder how he got sucked in?" I don't know, I just wanted to share that from what I have seen, each of us needs to be thankful EVERY night when we lay our heads on our pillow that we, or someone we love, hasn't gotten 'sucked in'.

 

[ACamp1900]

I was so caught up in my SB party prep I missed most of this... Sad.

I'll always remember him from Boogie Nights for how wonderfully awkward he made his character, and the role he played in Almost Famous was just amazing.

Drugs suck.