Death and use of addictive substances rapper juice: a second look

Launched in 2013, Harris project The non-profit organization is devoted to the prevention and treatment of common disorders (COD) -Combination of mental health problems and problems with the use of addictive substances. Us Weekly joined the Harris project to bring you Missing problemSpecial edition focused on celebrities that fought COD. Here we revise our past coverage of some of these stars.

This story ran on USMAGAZINE.com 22. January 2020:

Original story: The cause of the death of rapper juice Wrld was revealed almost 2 months after the musician suffered a seizure

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New Story: The Cause of the Rapper Juice Wrld revealed as an overdose emphasizing the reality of common disorders

Jarad Anthony Higgins, a promising hip-hop artist who broke into the mainstream under the name stage Juice Wrld, died of December 8, 2019At the age of 21, the result of accidental overdose including oxycodone and codeine. During their short but celebrated career, his texts laid his attacks with anxiety and depression-and provided a window to the connection between his mental health and drug use, known as disorders together.

His lyrics emphasized his struggle to equalize

In the footsteps such as “anxiety”, Higgins rapped about parallel disorders: “Anxiety is bad for the soul / pills and anxiety, take over control / bad timing, the stars in my abyss will be balanced / please someone will find me.” On “Lucid Dreams”, his escape song, he said, “I take the regulations to feel A-Okay / I know it’s all in my head.”

In an interview for 2018 with No sweater“He talked about how his drug use” opens the door to feel emotions that you would probably not feel, “but warned,” (that) can destroy you – totally destroy you. “

Fought with cultural stigma

In 2019 Billboard The interview opened Higgins about the stigma often associated with mental health problems, specifically among the blacks. “When I speak (like) African -American, I know the thing is neglected in our community,” he said. “You tell your mom, your father, your father, your aunt, anyone who feels like you (you), you get anxiety, you feel that you have depression, you feel like adding, whatever, you will look at you as if you were crazy … It’s not like that, but it should be, but that’s how it is.

He wanted to improve

Rapper began to use Xanax in high school, but spoke of limiting drug use in years before his death. “I smoke weeds and sometimes slipped and did something that is bad judgment,” he said The New York Times In July 2018. “I have a lot for me, I admit it’s a lot of big things, a lot of big appearances. I want to be there and you don’t have an overdose there.”

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If you or someone you know, you are fighting mental health and/or using addictive substances, you are not alone. Look for immediate intervention – call 911 for medical attention; 988 for the rescue rope of suicide and crisis;; or 1-800-662-Help for Samhsa (Administration of addictive substances and mental health). Naloxone (narcan) can help reverse opioid overdose.