I must be weird... I don't have my mind made up on this one way or the other because I don't feel I have "enough data." So I will continue to assess any new data that comes in... in this case from Janet.
I have no strong opinion on whether the family should speak openly about their impressions of Michael. But I kind of lean toward being sympathetic to them.
There's probably not a simple answer to "Dependence: Yea or Nay?" This conversation needs to be very nuanced. Based on the admittedly spotty data the public has so far, here's my "ten-point theory on MJ's drug use." ANY of it could turn out to be wrong. Please don't hurt me.
***Highly Speculative Opinion Alert ***
1) MJ was probably chronically dependent on sedatives for insomnia, and sometimes for daytime anxiety, most of his life since the 1993 case. (Probably mostly benzodiazepines. This excludes Propofol (not a sedative but an anesthetic).
2) This ratcheted up during two or more eras, including at the end, to Propofol. He'd probably been using Propofol for several weeks at the end. Using Propofol to sleep, even for a few weeks, constitutes a period of "Propofol dependency."
3) So Evan Chandler indirectly killed Michael Jackson.
4) No one, no one, no one but the administering doctor(s) ever in MJ's entire life had the slightest clue about MJ's Propofol use. It is so wildly unimaginable that anyone trying to read him -- including family and managers -- would guess wrong and misunderstand him in many ways.
5) In his final era, evidence does not point to his use of sedatives for daytime anxiety. This means he probably felt pretty relaxed and confident most of the time, which makes me happy. Apparently gumchewing was getting him through the days well enough! No pills were found in his stomach because he only needed drugs at night, where he was getting everything he needed by IV.
6) In the past, he's been dependent on painkillers (narcotics) occasionally to treat pain from the burn and other conditions. This appears to have ratcheted up to use for mood elevation due to Chandler.
7) In his final era, evidence suggests he had beaten narcotics dependency! He was surely in pain at times, and wished for a mood lift at times, but apparently this was within manageable limits and he wasa feeling pretty darn good most of the time. I"m very, very proud of him for this.
8) Chronic use of Propofol and/or sedatives to sleep is not sustainable for anyone's health. And it surely created occasionally visible daytime side effects. Family members saw this, guessed correctly at a drug dependence, but undoubtedly incorrectly at the cause and type. They probably incorrectly thought he was on daytime painkillers and sedatives An understandable and forgivable error, and not terribly significant. Either way an intervention was needed right up to the end. I'm glad to hear the attempts were made, that there's still that much intra-family support.9) Entering his final era, MJ had read all about Propofol and its dangers. His dependency on sedatives had created a drug tolerance that rendered these no longer insufficiently reliable for him to get him through the show. This dependence he did not feel he could beat, sadly. He convinced himself it was his only choice and he could handle it. This defines dependence. He had to work pretty hard and very, very carefully to find a doctor who would administer Propofol.
10) There's always a predator ready to pounce on such vulnerable prey. MJ's actions are completely independent of Murray's criminal behavior, and Murray should be imprisoned for "indifferently depraved" homicide.
from everything we heard , THEY SAW NOTHING, they felt he was on something BECAUSE THEY WERE DENIED ACCESS TO HIM .
at least for 2007 , one family member was accused by mj of plotting against him , the other family members were planning to do reunion concerts .These were the main concerns back then , Randy wanted MJ to stop his legal action against his team of lawyers and accountants , the other siblings and joe wanted him to tour , Katherine and janet wanted MJ to tour with the brothers and drop everything he felt against Randy because they may very well thought Randy did nothing wrong, it's MJ being ungrateful as always .
everything was documented in 2007 , they did not even met him based on what they themselves claimed to form an opinion whether he was on drugs or not . they were simply blocked from his life because of what Randy did and because of that they felt he must have been addict . They could not say he refused to talk to us because whenever we called him we wanted something, surely Randy could not say he refused to answer my calls because I stole and plotted against him , they tried to shift the blame to him by saying he did not want to meet us because he was on drugs and he knew we wanted to help but he was in denial .
THEY SAW NOTHING according to THEM .
the last months of his life, THEY again wanted access because they felt they should have been part of his comeback , when he refused , again rumours of drug abuse spread like fire .
He was not addicted to propofol , he simply suffered from severe insomnia for many many years, he did not take propofol for it . But when he had to work out and rehearse for 8 hours everyday , HE NEEDED TO SLEEP . he could no longer stay up for days like he used to do , he had to get some rest .
why do you find this very hard to understand ?
his insomnia had nothing to do with drugs, with propofol. he suffered from it when he was still very young touring with the jackson 5 .
MJ did not 'treat' insomnia using propofol, it was a temporary solution to his chronical problem , that was not dependency .
when MJ needed help he got it , the family had nothing to do with it . the family wanted money, wanted access to ask for money that was it , they cared less whether he was on drugs or not . but they were convincing themselves and trying to convince others , the problem was not them , the problem was mj .
they could not blame themselves for his attempts to stay away from them, so they blamed him and his drug abuse .
it is so obvious , why people keep forgeting these very simple facts . we all know mj denied them access because they always treated him as a commodity , he said it many times .
look what they did after he died , they were fighting for his money , all of them sold stories, all of them tried to get some money from this tragedy . that what mj hated the most . he wanted to be loved as a brother a son only , not as a means to get money .
he meant money to them, he meant power to them , read his mother's book , she was always upset because Mike had all the money and the siblings had nothing . she was not upset with janet , she was upset with Mike .
