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...last, America's most notorious hip-hopper and many of the parents who hate him have something in common. Pills. Specifically, prescription painkillers like Vicodin. Eminem, who sports a Vicodin tattoo on his left arm, is the pill's unofficial spokesperson. Last month, in his duet with Elton John at the Grammys, he rapped, "I'm on a thousand downers now/ I'm drowsy." It's easy to imagine that, as they glared at the TV, boomers around the country alleviated their annoyance at Eminem's notoriety by swallowing the very drug their nemesis was naming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Feeling No Pain? | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...made headlines in their heydays of excess. Young superstar actors, rappers and chart-topping singers are popping pain pills. It's chic, it's mellowing, and some think it's funny. During January's Golden Globe awards, Just Shoot Me star David Spade joked, "I found 10 Vicodin in my gift basket." Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole Smith, Chevy Chase and quarterback Brett Favre have been addicted to prescription drugs. Friends' Matthew Perry, who has admitted that he was hooked on Vicodin, last month returned to rehab for unspecified reasons. "An addiction to prescribed pain pills can happen to anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Feeling No Pain? | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

CHECKED IN. Friends co-star MATTHEW PERRY, 31; to an undisclosed drug-and-alcohol rehab center; at his doctors' behest. Perry, who had been pulling double duty on the sets of Friends and a new film, Servicing Sarah, did time in rehab in 1997 for addiction to the painkiller Vicodin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 12, 2001 | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...comes off as an unbalanced, whiny creep brutalizing women (his wife, his mother) out of weakness. He can barely issue a boast ("Shady will f___in' kill you") without undermining it with a pathetic image ("I'm like a mummy at night.../Frightened with five little white Vicodin pills bitin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rude Boys | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...exactly look in her couch for spare change when she wants to order pizza, certainly hasn't hurt his bid for the White House. Despite her financial influence, the new marriage meant so much to McCain that he ignored his wife to the point where she became a vicodin and percocet addict. "Maybe I was wrapped up too much in Washington and my ambitions to pay as much attention as I should have," McCain recently admitted on a Dateline NBC interview...

Author: By Brad R. Sohn, | Title: Don't Vote McCain For Altar Boy | 2/16/2000 | See Source »

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