Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler claims irresponsible doctors who tried to push him prescription drugs were more damaging than street dealers.
The 65-year-old singer, who battled a addiction to heroin,compared doctors to drug dealers on the Dr Oz Show.
“You know who the new dealers are? They’re doctors. The dealers aren’t on the street. It’s not a shady guy on the street. You know how many doctors I’ve gone to and said, ‘I’m in a 12-step program, I’ve been sober for…’
He goes, ‘Ah, good for you!’ On the way out he says, ‘You need something to sleep tonight?’ “I’m trying to tell him that I can’t take anything that’s mood altering, because if I do, I like to ride it,” he said. Tyler landed in rehab in 1986 before another stint in 2009 to treat an addiction to painkillers.
He says all humans are prone to addictive behaviour. “We all do, right? You get on a water ski, you wanna go again next week. Kiss her – I wanna do it again! It’s ‘euphoric recall,’ it’s not so odd. It’s what humans – you know, we’re all touchy-feely.
Even those that say that they’re not and men that don’t cry, they still want to be touched by their mothers.” (PTI)
