Aware of her aunt's continued discomfort, Totti said she wa.s not surprised to learn of Olivia's death. " It wasn't a surprise, we knew how sick she was ," he noted, " especially the last five days."
....Didi Conn, Olivia's cast partner in "Grease", gave an interview in which she told how the singer's last days were . In dialogue with the Good Morning America program, the actress revealed that her great friend “could no longer walk. Her husband John and her daughter Chloe were by her side the whole time.”
Her family asks that contributions be made to the alternative cancer treatment foundation she created, the ONG Cancer Center which has helped so many people.
It may be that Olivia Newton-John did not want to be treated with opioids. That's her decision. But for severe pain, most people do require opioids. Strong ones. That doctors now tell you to take ibuprofen after a root canal or minor surgery is a joke. What is not a joke is that today Endo, the Irish company that makes Percocet, announced it was going bankrupt due to the massive number of lawsuits brought against it by state and federal government entities, over its now-discontinued drug Opana. Purdue Pharma LP and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals have done the same thing due to the pressure of lawsuits accusing them of fueling our so-called opioid crisis.
If the DEA had its way, prescription opioids would be limited to those in an emergency setting, hospice or dying in hospitals. That's absurd. The restrictions on prescribing opioids make people turn to dangerous street drugs. They ask for oxycontin and think that's what they are buying, but many times pills are not oxy at all, but aspirin laced with fentanyl or fentanyl laced with heroin, or some other dangerous combination, which can be fatal.
Bring back the pharmaceutical companies, get the DEA off its back, and let people in pain stop suffering. If we have to choose between people, especially the elderly, being able to continue to live a meaningful life through effective pain medication, and keeping young people, who don't have pain, from abusing fake pain pills (because they can't get ahold of real ones), I vote for letting the pharmaceutical pills stay on the market and be prescribed in any amount the doctor orders, with no interference from the DEA. Free the doctors, free the pharmacies, and free the people suffering from pain, as needed.
R.I.P. Olivia Newton-John. You were a true star in the best sense of the word. I'm sorry for the pain you had to endure.
