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[DIDI]

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Unfortunately depression also leads to the view that everything is about the "me" as well . Sad to see

[Michael^Heaven]

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From the Associated Press..

NEW YORK — Addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky said Saturday that pain medications likely led disc jockey DJ AM, a former drug addict who died suddenly Friday, away from his sober path.

"It very slowly and subtly reawakens addiction," Pinsky said of pain medication in an interview Saturday. "I'm not saying it was inappropriately prescribed, I'm saying he didn't know the risks."

DJ AM, whose real name was Adam Goldstein, was found dead in his apartment Friday evening. A crack pipe and prescription pills were found in the Manhattan apartment, said a law enforcement official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.
Goldstein was 36 years old.

Pinsky is the host of VH1's "Celebrity Rehab," where he helps troubled stars get off of drugs and alcohol.

Pinsky said he believed pain medication Goldstein took for injuries sustained in the plane crash that required two skin graft surgeries reawakened his addiction to drugs. Goldstein had long preached sobriety and openly discussed his earlier addictions to drugs including crack cocaine and Ecstasy.

A medical examiner's office spokeswoman said Saturday that toxicology tests, expected to take weeks, are needed to determine what killed Goldstein. An autopsy Saturday was inconclusive, said the spokeswoman, Ellen Borakove.

Pinsky also expressed his grief over the loss of Goldstein. He said he considered himself a friend of the late star, and though they had not spoken for "a while," the two relayed messages to each other through friends and were "very close."

Goldstein was to debut his own show centering on rehab in October on MTV called "Gone Too Far," featuring Goldstein staging interventions with young people battling their own addictions. MTV said it has not decided on the show's future.

In an interview with The Associated Press last month to promote the show, Goldstein said that it was terrifying watching people go through harrowing addictions and it made him recall his own battles.

"I am a recovering drug addict. When I see it and I'm in their room and the paraphernalia and the whole lifestyle and everything, I still, 11 years later, have that little thing in my head that starts thinking, 'Oh, where's that? I wonder what that is?'"
But Pinsky laughed at the notion that being close to addicts may have caused Goldstein to relapse.

"That's not in any way the kind of thing that leads to someone relapsing," he said.
Pinsky called Goldstein a model for people going through recovery and said the disc jockey was selfless when it came to helping others overcome their addictions.
"He sponsors other people, and in his words, will go to the mat supporting people on their recovery," Pinsky said.

"He was a very supportive recovery person."

Pinsky recalled how when Crazytown's Seth "Shifty" Binzer, a former patient on "Celebrity Rehab," was going through his recovery process, Pinsky urged him to reach out to DJ AM, who was a former member of the defunct band, to help learn how to stay sober.

"He was someone I referred people to to learn about recovery," said Pinsky.
Which is why he finds the circumstances of his death so shocking: "It was so much of a surprise I have a hard time believing it."

Also Saturday, Travis Barker, who was seriously injured in the South Carolina plane crash last year with Goldstein that killed four other people, expressed his sadness about his former collaborator on Twitter. The two had performed as the duo TRVSDJ-AM.

"Don't know how i am gonna play 2night but i am for AM," wrote the Blink-182 member, who is on tour with the group. "My brother is gone. i love u and miss u, i'll never forget all the good times we had."

Mandy Moore, who dated DJ AM and rushed to his side last year after he was injured in a plane crash, said in a Saturday statement that she was "absolutely heartbroken" over his sudden death.

Moore and Goldstein had a serious relationship and remained friends after it ended. She was with him last year as he recovered from burns sustained in the plane crash that killed four people.

"I am absolutely heartbroken. For those of us lucky enough to have known him, Adam radiated a contagious exuberance for life and also personified the very definition of a true friend," Moore said. "To say that he will be missed beyond words is an understatement. My heart goes out to his loved ones."

Associated Press writer Colleen Long contributed to this report.

[chuckc]

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if your a long time heavy drug user it never usally ends up good.

[Steve Graham]

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right, but did you even read the post above yours?

[DancingQueen]

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Very, very sad
He had a very rough year and its very sad to see it end this way. I guess the light at the end of the tunnel seemed to far away for him

[nick007]

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Very sad

[lilsensa]

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Damn.

[lilsensa]

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Anything new on this? Always sad to hear of a fellow dj dying...

[Garrick]

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here's a fox news article written yesterday, but more or less the same stuff we've already heard:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,544579,00.html

[chuckc]

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According to the paper, the deejay, who died on Aug. 28 at the age of 36, had recently been "missing appointments and acting erratically," leading to fears that he had relapsed after several years of apparent sobriety.

Goldstein's inner circle grew so worried that his manager and his AA sponsor flew from Los Angeles to New York on Wednesday night to see him.
When they showed up at his apartment on Thursday morning, an "agitated" AM would only allow his sponsor to enter, and he "lit up a crack pipe and popped pills in front of his horrified pal."

[floridaorange]

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/09012009...aze_187521.htm

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The sad revelation emerged yesterday as pals and probers described a drug-filled final day for the nightclub star, who was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Friday.

DJ AM, whose real name was Adam Goldstein, had been missing appointments and acting erratically in recent weeks -- behavior that so worried his West Coast manager and recovery sponsor that they jumped on a red-eye Wednesday night to confront him at his SoHo apartment Thursday morning, pals have told law-enforcement officials.

When they arrived, an agitated Goldstein stubbornly refused to see his manager -- but allowed the sponsor inside.

That's when Goldstein lit up a crack pipe and popped pills in front of his horrified pal, investigators told The Post.

Goldstein then promised his sponsor and manager that he'd check himself into a rehab clinic in California after making a scheduled gig in Las Vegas on Friday night, friends told law-enforcement officials. But he never made that performance, at the Palms Casino Resort in Sin City.

When Goldstein missed the flight to Las Vegas on Friday and didn't return phone calls, friends brought cops to his apartment, where they found Goldstein dead from an apparent overdose.

Goldstein's apartment was littered with small plastic bags filled with painkillers Vicodin and oxycodone and anti-anxiety medications Xanax and lorazepam, sources told The Post.

Results of toxicology tests are still weeks away and a spokeswoman for the medical examiner said a precise cause of death could not be immediately determined.

Handlers have said that Goldstein suffered a paralyzing fear of flying.

The celebrity spinner, who barely survived a deadly plane crash last year, was constantly begging doctors for anti-anxiety medication, friends told investigators.

Cops found just one bottle of properly marked prescription drugs in his apartment, a medication for diarrhea, sources said.

Goldstein also had over-the-counter medications to fight allergies and stomach acid, according to law-enforcement officials.

[Cj Tari]

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dont really know how this guy became so famous, i heard one of his mixes once and he was terrible, he would switch from electro house to hiphop every other track in a really awful manner, plus the electro that he was playing was worst than listening to dj Irene.

its a sad story that he died in such manner after all the shit he went trough.

[floridaorange]

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^I think he more of a celebrity dj, meaning he would dj for celebrity parties mainly in hollywood...otherwise it appears to me that he basically rode the coat tails of Travis Barker, Blink 182's, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's celebrity status. I could be wrong about my assumption though.

[Shpira]

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rip

[Huggie Smiles]

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^I think he more of a celebrity dj, meaning he would dj for celebrity parties mainly in hollywood...otherwise it appears to me that he basically rode the coat tails of Travis Barker, Blink 182's, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's celebrity status. I could be wrong about my assumption though.

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