Culture Tom Petty Found Unconcious - OR: Tom Petty and the Heart Attacks

Tom Petty found unconscious and not breathing

Tom Petty was found unconscious at his home in California Getty Images


US musician Tom Petty has been rushed to hospital after being found unconscious following a suspected cardiac arrest.

Paramedics rushed to the singer's home in California on Sunday night after reports that he had been found unconscious and not breathing.

He was rushed to the nearby hospital in Santa Monica where he is reportedly on life support.

The 66-year-old has just finished a huge tour which wrapped at the Hollywood Bowl arena in Los Angeles last week, TMZ reported.

 

[Pixichick]

Sex Drugs & Rock n Roll

RIP Tom Petty...u play in Rock n Roll Heaven now...

 

[Gordon Cole]

I thought he was back as a zombie for a second there.

One last sife and jam sesh before he goes to the great beyond?

 

[Dysnomia]

View attachment 361432 Cause of Death: Accidental OD of Prescription meds (including Fenytal).

Fentanyl has become a huge problem. At his age he shouldn't have been touring with a fractured hip. A hip injury is often associated with a downward health spiral. Look how well hip problems worked out for Prince. At 66 Tom Petty should have been home resting.

I have no doubt he must have been in awful pain. But I have seen this sort of stuff first hand and saw it kill a family member. I hope he was not chewing the fentanyl patches. That's a surefire express ticket to the afterlife if I ever saw one.

I hate the fact that street drugs are getting laced with this junk for a "better" high. Pain management is necessary for many people. But because of the nature of addiction itself it's very easy to start on the road to misusing your medication then being afraid to do anything about it because your doctor and insurance might cut you off.

I can imagine Petty starting with a normal dose. Then it hurts a bit too much so you take extra then a little more. And you're getting up there in years and your body can't handle all those drugs. But you're already addicted. You get addicted anyway with pain management because you are constantly on a steady dose of narcotics. All these people faking "muh chronic illness" for oxycontin doesn't help either. It's just made opioids harder to get for people who actually need them to function due to crippling pain.

Seems like that's always the way these days.

Was he an addict?

I don't know. I mean he was in the music business so you've got to expect some substance issue at least in the past. But if he was on pain management then he'd be addicted just because he was always on narcotics. Plus it looks like he was taking too much. They don't give fentanyl out like candy. You have to really need it. Of course if you have the right connections a Hollywood doctor can get you anything. It's some seriously powerful stuff, especially if you chew the patches or otherwise misuse them. Which I have seen and it is horrifying to deal with.

I hope it was just a one time accident and not a really nasty chronic problem. But I guess only his family would know the truth and they've probably said all they will on that.

 

[Asa_Spades60]

I can imagine Petty starting with a normal dose. Then it hurts a bit too much so you take extra then a little more. And you're getting up there in years and your body can't handle all those drugs. But you're already addicted. You get addicted anyway with pain management because you are constantly on a steady dose of narcotics. All these people faking "muh chronic illness" for oxycontin doesn't help either. It's just made opioids harder to get for people who actually need them to function due to crippling pain.

I think that's also what happened to Prince.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Fentanyl preparations have been marketed at the clear cost of human lives for a while now. There are already a huge number of lawsuits pending over it, and many others have settled out of court. It was marketed heavily to doctors. 95% of doctors wouldn't give someone fentanyl until it was the only remaining option, but there are a few who really drank the kool-aid and went all in. One of the scandals involved drug reps actually phoning insurance companies posing as patients' doctors, saying the patient had intractable cancer pain when the patient didn't have cancer and just needed something to handle lower back pain. It went pretty far. So many of these effects are because of fentanyl specifically, and tons of deaths from heroin ODs are because the local supply briefly got tainted with the stuff. I think it should basically only be administered at hospitals and hospices, for people who are actively staring death in the face.

 

[Cryin RN]

He had acetylfentanyl in his system, which is not a metabolite of pure prescription fentanyl. It's a Chinese import formulation. So he was self-medicating with corner H.

F for his family.