Actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman passed away of apparent drug overdose

[El Kabong]

he looks older than 46. Was he in Mission Impossible 2?

He also recently did a movie called The Master. He players a character that was based on L. Ron Hubbard. The movie was slow but I thought he was excellent. I don't know much about Dianetics but the movie portrayed the formation of the cult or whatever it is. Despite watching the movie I still know nothing about Diantetics. Still, Hoffman was great in it.

Yeah that film was strange....interesting but really really odd.


As for drugs sparking some creativity in artists, yeah drugs can help you find a muse, but they should not become a crutch nor should they be held on high (pardon the pun) as the sole reason for great art. Plenty of people site drug use for helping them portray better what is in their mind's eye by helping the artists shed inhibitions, but in the end the drug only helped you get to a comfortable (or uncomfortable depending who you are and what you do) state of being.

I have found the use of certain substances helpful in various tasks be it dealing with the mundane world, painting, sports, appreciating art, what have you...I've also found those substances a hindrance on specific tasks as well.

[X]

what's the difference between one more dead junkie in Hollywood, and one more dead junkie in a boarded up house in Middlesbrough or Detroit?

About a million sanctimonious bullshit posts on the internet

[Gandalf]

He went out in style and at a very decent intermediary age. Most will die with a heart attack or a stroke and he went out looking for heroin heaven. It's sad that he is dead as he was a good actor, but the media is harping on about it a bit much.

[Dia bando]

Thing is X has a point, he is totally correct junkie is a junkie I no seen many parents
crying over there children, as they lay them to rest.
Yes drugs drink you name it,! it's sad I tell you see your kid in a wooden box, in some crematorium,
or a hole in the ground. The child you brought up, people would never believe it would end this way,
the amount of this type of thing I see time and time again.
There is a say there for the grace of god go I ,it could because the thing you choice can fuck your
life up, seen many people do that, and no doubt I will see many more.!

[Beanflicker]

Heroin is apparently coming back big in the States and around the world, and I have no fucking clue why. It has the most unglamorous, disgusting image out of any drug. I can understand cocaine, because you kind of associate that with partying and also to rich and successful people.

Heroin has such a dirty image, of skinny dopers injecting needles into an arm covered with infected sores - looking like it has gangrene - in some dirty alleyway or a messy dope den. And it has the distinction of snuffing out so many artists over the years.

I have no idea what would tempt someone to use heroin, unless you hate yourself and have a death wish.

[Beanflicker]

And as far as artists go, there's NOTHING that heroin can do for creativity that marijuana, LSD or another psychedelic drug can't. I just don't buy that.

[Gandalf]

When people talk about being creative on drugs, I find that talk gibberish. Drugs let you have a unique time and that is it. It certainly has little meaning for a job where you need your timing, poise, and discipline. All drugs take away discipline. Drugs are for kicks.

I am not against drugs in the slightest. To use heroin is no different to using other drugs. Just as long as the supply is maintained then your quality of life shall remain. Life is ponzi schemes everywhere else, why discriminate against heroin, and especially, if it is someone who can afford it? Drugs are only bad when it becomes crime and breaking into peoples homes.

In fact the US government itself is guarding poppy fields these days in Afghanistan and oh so coincidentally, America has an H epidemic.

[FinitoElDinamita]

Heroin is apparently coming back big in the States and around the world, and I have no fucking clue why. It has the most unglamorous, disgusting image out of any drug. I can understand cocaine, because you kind of associate that with partying and also to rich and successful people.

Heroin has such a dirty image, of skinny dopers injecting needles into an arm covered with infected sores - looking like it has gangrene - in some dirty alleyway or a messy dope den. And it has the distinction of snuffing out so many artists over the years.

I have no idea what would tempt someone to use heroin, unless you hate yourself and have a death wish.

You are right but the dirty image stuff but it's because heroine gives you the ultimate high that is better than sex according to a lot of users. It's the best high they say..

Ive never done it but I can see why people would get hooked on it instantly.. shoot it through ur veins and imagine that rush straight to the dome.

Ive done coke back in the days but I didnt like it.. it just gets me real paranoid and hostile.. I hate that feeling.

[El Kabong]

The reason why people get hooked on heroine is not because the high is so super amazing it's because coming off of heroine is a fucking nightmare