Two months ago, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, sensing the wheels of his own self-destruction gain momentum, predicted his own death before it finally happened yesterday. The Multi-Award winning actor had been attending AA meetings on and off while in the middle of a six-week heroin binge and he told one peer in the program, “If I don’t stop I know I’m gonna die.” And last month at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, Hoffman when approached by Washington Life Magazine publisher John Arundel (John didn’t immediately recognize the actor, who was wearing a hat) and Arundel asked him what he did for a living, Hoffman replied, “I’m a heroin addict,’’. After Arundel recognized him, Hoffman clarified he’d just finished rehab.
According to High Watch Recovery Center CEO Janina Kean."Because the actor had been sober for such a long time, he might have overestimated the amount of heroin he needed to get his fix, triggering the fatal overdose. Kean explained that when heroin users stop using, “The brain begins to reset itself and is no longer able to withstand the same potency … an amount that was once tolerable could easily cause an overdose.” Kean said the gifted actor “may have misjudged how much would have stopped his respiratory center,” which commonly causes accidental drug deaths.
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