Sharon Stone Opens Up About Losing Loved Ones to Drugs
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Sharon Stone got candid about losing loved ones to drug use.
As reported by People, the Basic Instinct star hosted the Art House gala honoring famed photographer Nan Goldin on June 14. The gala, held by Bailey House, raised money to fight to end AIDS and homelessness. During her speech, Stone spoke about having to ask hospital staff to stop giving the highly-addictive drug OxyContin to her son after he was injured in a ski accident.
"I modeled in New York in the late '70s and the '80s. I spent a lot of time at Studio 54. A lot of my friends are dead. Don't f--k with me," she said. "Do not cross the line between health and healing and abuse. My brother went to Attica [Prison]—he crossed the line. Do not cross the line with me."
She added, "Every single stop along the way for the next day and a half I had to have it re-put in his chart. 'Can you please read it back to me?' In a day and a half that it took for him to get a rod and seven pins in his leg, I got six calls from four nurses, from an anesthesiologist, from doctors, from people completely unrelated to my son's situation, telling me why my son needed OxyContin and no other drug would do."
Stone continued, "'Until finally, at the sixth call, I said, 'I'm going on CNN tomorrow and if I get one more of these calls I'm going to say that your hospital is a drug cartel.' This is not because I or Nan disagree with painkillers. We don't. We disagree with paid drug dealers."
Besides being a celebrated artist, Goldin is the founder of PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), an advocacy organization that specifically targets Purdue Pharma LP for the promotion and distribution of OxyContin.
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