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...while filming a Pepsi commercial. Says one source: "He kept telling Hoefflin to make it smaller, make it smaller." Jackson has said it was the painful after-effects of scalp surgery that started him on his addiction to drugs. One source has told TIME Jackson may have abused prescribed Demerol, a narcotic the singer first used when he was receiving steroid treatments to soften scar tissue...
Kevorkian knows firsthand about loss of control. "Our mother suffered from cancer," says his sister Margo Janus. "I saw the ravages right up to the end. Her mind was sound, but her body was gone. My brother's option would have been more moral than all the Demerol that they poured into her, to the point that her body was all black and blue from the needle marks. She was in a coma, and she weighed only 70 lbs. Even then I said to the doctor, 'This isn't right, to keep her on IV,' but he shrugged his shoulder...
...Saturday approached, Lee realized the pain might be too severe for him to fly home for winter break. On Saturday morning, he went to UHS again where he received an injection of Demerol, a potent narcotic painkiller. He was given more morphine and was handed a Valium pill to take on the plane...
...doctor asked me if I was allergic to anything," says Martin. "I said aspirin and penicillin. But he gave me a shot of Demerol which causes a reaction in people allergic to aspirin and penicillin. I went into a spasm...
...surgery three more times since April to separate bone pieces that closed the gap and joined prematurely. So far, his right shin is stretched by 5 in. and his left thigh by 3 in. His skin and muscles are drawn painfully taut. He survives on codeine, Demerol, other pain-killers and huge doses of mind control and courage. He has to undergo at least three more sets of operations -- on the upper arms, the right thigh and the left shin. He broke down one day and ordered everybody out of the room. "I want to be by myself...