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Bush's Cocaine Amnesia
« on: 2008-05-29 18:19:07 » |
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This was simply too light-hearted to belong in "Serious Business" although it does deserve some mention just to understand how much brain damage Bush inflicted on himself through his combined use of cocaine and hard liquor.
Now that Scott McClellan's book has come out; apparently Scott can't understand how Bush could seriously claim back in 2000 to his closest advisors that he really couldn't remember if he used cocaine or not, stating something to the effect that he had some seriously wild parties and couldn't be sure. I think that's probably a much more damning admission than the outright truth probably would have been. Obviously Scott hasn't partied that hard and doesn't understand how black-outs work.
Seriously, however, I think Bush probably did MUCH more brain damage to himself with the alcohol. Cocaine can do *some* brain damage, but for males especially the damage cocaine inflicts goes much more to the heart than the brain. Well . . . directly anyway. One very common indirect way cocaine can damage the brain more, is that it even if you are otherwise drunk enough to pass out (and hence temporarily end your consumption of alcohol until you are conscious again), cocaine can "revive" you to party longer, and hence consume even more alcohol, and therefore inflict even more alcoholic brain-damage than a normal human would be able to.
As a criminal defense attorney, I deal with LOTS of drug using people first hand, and hence am more inspired second hand to look into the medical and scientific facts of drug usage and overdose/death statistics. Of all drugs taken in isolation, cocaine has the highest rate of lethal overdosage, followed by alcohol and heroin ( I suspect that many purely heroin overdoses are actually suicidal or semi-suicidal since most heroin addicts are well aware of their heroin limits). However the absolute highest level of overdosing occurs when someone uses a combination of drugs . . . for example the cocaine/heroin speedball, or some combination of methamphetamine/amphetamine and alcohol/heroin. Alcohol plus speed/meth/cocaine (in general "uppers") are the most lethal since many people tend to discount the alcohol because #1 its legal, #2 it lowers ones inhibitions, and #3 therefore tends to get discounted in the drunk mind when determining a reasonable "partying" amount of meth/speed/cocaine to consume.
Also #4 alcohol is more likely to produce a memory blackout . . . where a person seems to otherwise remain conscious and relatively active, but otherwise has no reasonable faculties and also lacks any memory of his/her usually embarassing behavior. Heroin users are more likely to just pass out, take a nap, or become mostly inactive if otherwise conscious. This is why alcohol is much more linked to violent behavior than heroin or any other depressing and/or barbituate type drug.
If Scott McClellan had some actual experience with "hard partying" or with those individuals who do, he would understand that Bush's failure to remember his cocaine use is actually FAR more indicative of the likely extent of his usage and degree of brain damage therefrom than if he actually admitted to using it. I'm actually pretty sure that Bush probably really does remember the FACT of his cocaine usage, but probably can't really remember the EXTENT of his usage, which is likely FAR more than even he imagined considering his notoriously extensive use of hard liquor in all of his "hard partying".
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