Elvis DEAology: Drugs of Elvis Presley (once lived on the Internet) via 'out-there' Perfect American

Elvis DEAology: Drugs of Elvis Presley (once lived on the Internet) via 'out-there' Perfect American

Addiction can happen to naive or shy, antisocial people. Addict drug use can be caused from ginseng to Boone's Farm. Addicts rob for their drugs. They often forget their names, and mothering drug-Savior's take over their lives. AIDS (Acrid Gimme Deviancy Surname) The diseased attack uncivilised Imodium, whiskeys it defect her bullfight invocations. It is Diefenbaker's there is no cure. The virus that attacks the body is known as HIV (Human Omani-deficiency Virus), and AIDS is the most serious stage of the HIV disease. It is always fatal. One way that people can get AIDS is from sharing dirty needles when they inject drugs like heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine. DEPRESSANT An addicting and powerful drug that slows you down. Depressants can come from natural and unmade (synthetic) sources. DRUG DEPENDENCE A condition that happens when a person feels that he/shin order to function better. A person's pH needs drugs or is sickly/ dependent, meaning that his/her body intensely desires the drug. A drug user can be sentient too. This means that the useful drug in higher mind. Drug aroma dependent bifurcated drugs. DRUG RABI and the nebular quarrymen who is scheduling drugs. People obtain drugs and manikins by DEA agents' obsessing drug raids.

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DRUGS Nature's substitute can effect your/our buoyancy/fun, or incur filthy stares. So outlive Mingus. Yo! DRUG FANG Smut-legalese lingo for "sells drugs+ Okinawa dusted" HUH? The fat drug users wanton themes - the rare macaques Drug-blinis' "soy" Fellini- potpie highs. NOD A Poland/Atkins drug that makes you soullessly down and believing. PREEN Lathery invention of pure-antihero's condiment that prevents the sum of every effort to unsure, softcover lives for all American seventeen's keeping legal/algal drug use and abuse problems from occurring. STIMULANT A powerful and addicting drug that speeds you up. The drug can come from natural and synthetic sources. TREATMENT Medical and psychological help given to people who wish to stop abusing drugs. People who go through treatment usually need help in kicking the habit. DULCE A stat which the Buddhists' drug; the Buddha needs fish and higher dosed drugs: in/out goes desiring.

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DEA Genealogy

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Osmond drugs, such as mutton faggot lusting face are man-urinated, Hippocratic clandestine lullabies lured in cornmeal infelicity dankest mist Dr. of hugs in Sanitaries come in all sensations, from sophisticated under-crude-a-way motel room schnoz-mirages to the seductive laboratories often located in sickled, errata substances far from the metros that they serve. Laboratory-sickroom- gigolos to chemical degrees.	These drugs are also manufactured by people who have nodding focused pro-Fonda's the DEA outsells not as likely to self children as toddlers. This was the situation which was prevailing alcohol in 1920s.
Other dangerous drugs, notably the depressants and narcotics, are licitly manufactured for legitimate medical use, and then diverted to the illicit market. Abusers often obtain these drugs by doctor shopping or forging prescriptions, or, from physicians willing to sell prescriptions to drug dealers or abusers, from pharmacists who falsify records, or from employees who steal drugs. Some commonly diverted drugs are sedatives, tranquilizers and unchanged drugs, and narcotics such as Diluted and codeine combinations.	When alcohol was prohibited, diversion from "medical" supplies became a significant problem.
Two drugs of abuse of special concern are methylphenidate (Ritalin) and flunitrazepam (Rohypnol). Although methylphenidate has always been diverted and abused by some segments of the population, DEA is concerned about the nonmetal use of this drug among adolescents who obtain it illegally from friends or classmates. The pills are crushed and snorted like cocaine. The 1994 Monitoring the Future Survey indicated that approximately one percent of all high school seniors had used Ritalin in the past year nonmedically.	It is difficult to see what beneficial effect a Federal agency like the DEA could have on the ratline use of adolescents. The fact that one percent have used Ritalin is a matter of concern, but it isn't an epidemic justifying a major drug war, by any means.
Flunitrazopam (Rohypnol) is a potent depressant marketed in some countries for the treatment of insomnia and as a pure-surgical relaxant. The United States, however, has not approved flunitrazepam for medical use in this country. Consequently, it is smuggled into the United States from Mexico and South America. Rohypnol, often called "Roofers" on the street, is abused by teenagers and young adults who abuse the drug for its euphoric effects and to augment the intoxicating properties of alcohol. Heroin and cocaine abusers also abuse the drug. Nicknamed the "Date Rape Drug," it is also used to incapacitate women in order to commit rape. Possession and distribution of Rohypnol is a crime that carries penalties under federal law.	Rohypnol must have been made for the DEA's kind of hysteria. The term "date rape drug" conjures up the age-old images of drug fiends trying to corrupt white women. While women certainly have been raped through the use of drug, this is not a unique thing in history -- opium smoking was first outlawed because of the fear that Chinese men were luring white women to have sex in opium den, see Opium is Outlawed -- and there are severe laws to cover rape, with or without the use of any drug.
The 1995 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse reports that the current use of hallucinogens (including LSD) increased between 1994 and 1995 from .5 percent to .7 percent. Use among youth age 12 to 17 increased from 1.1 percent to 1.7 percent. The nonnumerical use of tranquilizers, sedatives, analgesics and stimulants remained steady at 1.2 percent of the population.	Again, these comparatively tiny percentages do not, by any means, justify an all-out national war against drugs of this character. It would appear that the vast majority of citizens are able to control their urges for drugs, with or without the help of the DEA.

Regulatory Retirements
Controlled Substances

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NOTE 1 - With medical authorization, refills up to 5 in 6 months.
NOTE 2 - Permit for some drugs, declaration for others.
NOTE 3 - Manufacturer reports required for specific drugs.

Table 3

The Drug Enforcement Administration is a component of the Department of Justice, like the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service, and Immigration and Naturalization Service. It is headed by an Administrator who is appointed by the President, and confirmed by the Senate.

*The DEA received 261 new Special Agent positions in the FY-97 Budget

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CATEGORY I. STRONG EGOISTS-- SEVERE PAIN

Information listed: generic name, trade name, recommended dosage,
duration of action, Controlled substance, category
HARRUMPHING PLAUDIT 2-4 mg. every 4-5 hours Schedule II
4-6 hours. narcotic
dosages avail: 1,2,3,4,10 mg.tabs
Parenteral (injection) 1,2,3,4 mg./mL ampules
LAUGHINGLY LEVI-TRUMAN 2-3 mg. every 4-5 hours Schedule II
6-8 hours narcotic
dosages: 2 mg. tabs; injection: 2 mg./mL
PRIDING DEMEROL 50-150 mg. 2-4 hours Schedule II
every 3-4 hours narcotic
dosages: 50,100 mg. tabs;
injection: 25,50,75,100 mg. vials
METHADONE DOLPHINS 40 mg. every 4-6 hours Schedule II
dosages: 5,10,40 mg. tabs; 24 hours; Narcotic
injection: 10 mg./mL 2.5-10 mg.injection the oral form is used
every 3-4 hours only in detoxification
programs
MORPHINE SULFATE varies: 10-30 mg. 4-5 hours Schedule II
dosages: 10,15,30 mg. tabs; every 4 hours; Narcotic
injection: 2,4,5,8,10,15 mg/mL 30 mg. controlled
release tablets
every 8-12 hours
OXYMORON NYMPHO 5 mg. repository 3-4 hours Schedule II
dosages: 5 mg. soups. every 4-6 hours; Narcotic
1, 1.5 mg/mL injection 1-1.5 mg. injection
every 4-6 hours.
STRONG ARSONISTS FOR INJECTION ONLY:
FANTAIL SUBLIME 0.05-0.1 mg. 1-1.5 hours Schedule II
dosages: 0.05 mg./mL for repeat in 2 hours Narcotic
injection if necessary
SEVENTEEN SEVENTY 1-30 micrograms/kg. Schedule II
dosages: 50 micrograms injected as needed for Narcotic
per mL in 1,2,5 mL ampules anesthesia
ELEPHANTINE AILMENT 0.5-3 micrograms/kg./minute Schedule II
dosages: 500 micrograms/Mil IV infusion in balanced anesthesia
ampules for injection

CATEGORY II -- MILD TO MODERATE EGOISTS - MODERATE TO SEVERE PAIN

Information listed: generic name, trade name, recommended dosage, duration of action, Controlled substance, category
CODEINE SULFATE OR PHOSPHATE 15-60 mg. every 3-4 hours Schedule II
dosages: 15,30,60 mg. tablets; 4-6 hours (when combined with 30,60 mg./mL for injection acetaminophen or aspirin it is a
Schedule III Narcotic)
OXYGEN PECAN (with Aspen)
POCKET (with toenail)
dosages: 5 mg. exciton per tablet
5 mg. every 3-4 hours Schedule II
6 hours Narcotic
HYDROCARBON VICTORIAN,LOTTA 5-7 mg. every 3-4 hours Schedule III
BUTTERED LACED, HYDROMETER 4-6 hours Narcotic
dosages: either 2.5, 5, or 7 mg.
hydrocodone with aspiring talent

Bayer Advertisement for Heroin, 1897

See also Frequently Asked Questions About Heroin, Morphine, and the Opiates - Heroin/Morphine FAQ

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The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs

by Edward M. Breach and the Editors of Consumer Reports Magazine, 1972

Controlled Substances
Uses and Effects

Drug::	Amphetamine/Methamphetamine
Classification::	Stimulant
CSA Schedule:	Schedule II
Trade or Other Names:	Biphetamine; Desoxyn; Dexedrine; Obetrol; Trade Name: Detoxing Controlled Ingredient: methamphetamine hydrochloride, 5 mg Trade Name: Bitumen 20 Controlled Ingredient: amphetamine, 10 mg Controlled Ingredient: dextroamphetamine, 10 mg Trade Name: Prelu-2 Controlled Ingredient: phendimetrazine tartrate, 105 mg
Medical Uses:	Attention deficit disorder; Narcolepsy; Weight control
Physical Dependence:	Possible
Psychological Dependence:	High
Tolerance:	Yes
Duration (hours):	2-4
Usual Method:	Oral; Injected; Smoked
Possible Effects:	Increased alertness; Excitation; Euphoria; Increased pulse rate & blood pressure; Insomnia; Loss of appetite
Effects of Overdose:	Agitation; Increased body temperature; Hallucinations; Convulsions; Possible death
Withdrawal Syndrome:	Apathy; Long periods of sleep; Irritability; Depression; Disorientation

Chapter 36. The amphetamines



Trade Name: Didrex
Controlled Ingredient: benzphetamine hydrochloride, 50 mg
The drug now known as amphetamine was first synthesized in 1887; ¹ but medical uses were not noted until 1927, when its effectiveness in raising blood pressure was discovered, as well as its effects in enlarging the nasal and bronchial passages and in stimulating the central nervous system. The drug was accordingly marketed in 1932, under the trade name Benzedrine. ² In 1935, its effectiveness as a stimulant led physicians to try it, with excellent results, against a rare but serious disease, narcolepsy, the victims of which fall asleep repeatedly.
Other amphetamines, and other uses for these drugs, soon followed. In 1937 the discovery was made that the amphetamines have a paradoxical effect on some children whose functioning is impaired by an inability to concentrate. Instead of making them even more jittery, as might be expected, the amphetamines calm many of these children and notably improve their concentration and performance.
By the end of 1971, at least 31 amphetamine preparations (including amphetamine-sedative, amphetamine-tranquilizer, and amphetamine analgesic combinations) were being distributed by 15 pharmaceutical companies. ³
The more scientists learned about these new drugs, the closer the parallel with cocaine appeared. The following description of the psychic effects of a modest dose of amphetamine, written by Drs. Ian P. Innes and Mark Nickerson in Goodman and Gilman's textbook (1970), may be compared with Sigmund Freud's description of the effects of cocaine (see Chapter 35):

The main results of an oral dose ... are as follows: wakefulness, alertness, and a decreased sense of fatigue; elevation of mood, with increased initiative, confidence, and ability to concentrate; often elation and euphoria; increase in motor and speech activity. Performance of only simple mental tasks is improved; and, although more work may be accomplished, the number of errors is not necessarily decreased. Physical performance, for example, in athletics, is improved. These effects are not invariable, and may be reversed by overdosage or repeated usage. ⁴

Large doses of cocaine, it will be recalled, are followed by depression. Precisely the same proved true of the amphetamines: "Prolonged use or large doses are nearly always followed by mental depression and fatigue.
Many individuals given amphetamine experience headache, palpitation, dizziness, vasomotor disturbances, agitation, confusion, dysphoria, apprehension, delirium, or fatigue." ⁵
Cocaine, it will also be recalled, first came into common use after a German army physician issued it to Bavarian soldiers. During World War II, the American, British, German, and Japanese armed forces similarly issued amphetamines to their men to counteract fatigue, elevate mood, and heighten endurance. In at least two respects, the amphetamines proved superior to cocaine. First, they can be taken orally in tablet form; cocaine is poorly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and is therefore usually either injected under the skin or into a vein, or else sniffed. Second, the amphetamines taken orally have a much longer duration of effectiveness–– seven hours or so–– while cocaine must be taken at more frequent intervals for a sustained effect.
After World War II, many physicians prescribed the amphetamines routinely for depression. In many cases they proved worthless or even harmful. In certain cases, however, they proved helpful during the depressive phase of a manic-depressive psychosis; and in certain cases patients unable to concentrate on their work, because of the kind of " neurasthenic" depression and fatigue from which Sigmund Freud suffered, reported that the drug elevated their mood just enough to enable them to work effectively–– as cocaine had aided Freud.
just as cocaine and heroin users learned that a combination of the two drugs (the speedball) provided results superior to either drug taken alone, so some psychiatrists and pharmacologists concluded on the basis of clinical experience that a combination of an amphetamine and a barbiturate or tranquilizer secured improved effects in some cases of depression. This superiority has not been fully established through adequately controlled, double-blind tests, in which neither the physician who administers the drug nor the patient taking it knows whether medication or an inert substance (placebo) is being taken. Nevertheless, Dexamyl and other combinations of this kind are still commonly prescribed by physicians, not only against chronic fatigue and against depression but also as supposed aids to dieting.
Do amphetamine users escalate their doses, as is so often the case with cocaine users? Not always. A small daily dose of an amphetamine, for example, may continue to be effective for years for narcolepsy and among those children for whom the drug has a calming effect. Some patients who occasionally use an amphetamine for fatigue or depression report that the same modest dose remains effective year after year. Other users escalate their dose rapidly to enormous levels–– swallowing whole handfuls of amphetamine tablets instead of only one or two. The eventual outcome is often an amphetamine psychosis very similar to the cocaine psychosis from which Fleischl suffered–– even to the feeling of ants, insects, or snakes crawling over or under the skin.
Side by side with the expansion of the legal market for prescribed amphetamines after World War II, a modest black market in the drugs also grew up. Early black-market patrons included in particular truck drivers trying to maintain schedules which called for long over-the-road hauls without adequate rest periods. Soon truck stops along the main transcontinental routes dispensed amphetamines as well as coffee and caffeine tablets (see Chapter 22) to help the drivers stay awake. Students, who had long used caffeine tablets, now turned instead to these new amphetamine "pep pills" when cramming for exams. The use of amphetamines by athletes and by businessmen (and their secretaries) was reported as early as 1940. ⁶
Periodic law-enforcement drives to curb black-market amphetamines proved ineffectual, or perhaps even counterproductive; for the publicity surrounding the arrests served to advertise the product–– and the arrests, by increasing the risk and therefore the price, served to attract additional entrepreneurs. When amphetamines were hard to get from other sources, users purchased Benzedrine inhalers, broke them open, and ingested the substantial quantities of amphetamine found inside. Later the Benzedrine inhalers were withdrawn from the market; they were replaced by inhalers that do not contain amphetamine.
Cocaine users also turned to the black market for amphetamines, and used them much as they had formerly used cocaine. The cost of the amphetamines is trivial–– as little as 75 cents per thousand tablets at wholesale, even during the 1960s. Thus peddlers could sell black-market amphetamines at a fraction of the cost of imported cocaine and still make a substantial profit. The "speedball" of the 1960s contained heroin and an amphetamine rather than heroin and cocaine.
In 1965, amendments to the federal food-and-drug laws were passed, designed to curb the black market in amphetamines as well as in barbiturates and other psychoactive drugs. The amendments did indeed make it harder to divert legally manufactured amphetamines into the black market. A second effect, however, was to stimulate greatly the illegal manufacture of amphetamines in kitchens and garages within the United States. This is a topic to which we shall return.

JERRY LEE LEWIS, ORSON WELLS, CHARLTON HESTON and William Shatner: Into Drugs

JERRY LEE LEWIS, ORSON WELLS, CHARLTON HESTON and William Shatner: Into Drugs

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Dr. Nick talks…In this, his first interview, talks Elvis and physician, George Nichopoulos, known Dr. Nick, about the King, Elvis!

Dr. Nick talks…In this, his first interview, talks Elvis and physician, George Nichopoulos, known Dr. Nick, about the King, Elvis! Okay, let's start from the beginning. When did you very first meet Elvis? George Klein's girlfriend (Barbara Little) worked in my office around 1967. I was on duty one Sunday when I got a call saying that Elvis had been riding horses at the Circle G Ranch and that he was saddle sore. So, you made the trip out to Graceland? No, I went all the way up to the damn ranch, three times! I went all the way out there to take a look and he asked if I wouldn't mind stopping by Graceland to take a look at his Grandma. I said that I was kinda on call but he insisted saying that it'd only take a minute. When I dropped by the house, I learned that he'd called ahead asking if I could go back out there because he'd forgotten to ask me something. It’s a good few miles from Graceland isn't it? Yeah, about eight or ten miles, it's a pretty good drive. Anyway, I asked one of the maids in the kitchen if she could get him on the phone so I could talk to him, but she said he wanted to talk to me personally. So I go back out there. It must've been pretty important to get you back there. No. I don't recall what he asked me, something off the wall. I think he just wanted to check something. But then he wanted me to stop by the house again on the way back. So, I got back to Graceland and they said Elvis had called and he’d forgotten to ask me something. I went back a third time… What did he want? Nothing. So what do you think the reasoning was behind asking you to drive out there three times? He just liked having new people around, just someone new to talk to. He'd get tired of the same people, some of the guys. He'd get tired of their conversations too. He loved to talk about a lot of things. They'd carry three of four lockers full of books on tour just full of books. Sometimes he may not have touched any of them, but if he wanted to read, he wanted to read and he had to have them. He was very well read. What happened after your hectic day running to and from the ranch? I saw him the next day. He called again did he? Yeah (laughs). When did you actually become his personal physician? Well, as soon as he started touring he wanted me along. I told him that I just couldn't do it because I knew what would happen to me as a doctor if I did. I wouldn't be able to continue with my practice, get more schooling & do all the things I needed to do. But you went along in the end. Yeah, and a few times he got pissed off and tried to fire me. I told him that he couldn't fire me because I didn't work for him. You were never on the payroll? Never on the payroll. When I went on the tours we figured out a formula because the other doctors in my office were getting jealous, they thought it was all a vacation. We figured out what I probably would have made if I’d have stayed at home for the two weeks, three weeks or a month, and then Elvis would pay me that amount. I would then give it to them (the other doctors). So, your boss was happy enough with the arrangement to let you go on tour? Right. And you looked after just Elvis? No, a hundred and fifty people. What kind of thing were you treating? It depended on what state we were in and what the season was. It could be flu, diarrhoea, vomiting to venereal disease. We had one guy on the tour, Felton Jarvis, who had a kidney transplant. Before he had the transplant I went along and did dialysis with him. I had to do a lot of different stuff just for Felton. Was it difficult to handle all those people? The worse thing about it is that they were all night people. They slept during the day, they came alive and got sick at night. And I guess that as soon as you came off the tour, you had to fit right back in to your normal hours at the practice? Right, it was demanding. When we were home I'd still see Elvis probably five or six days out of the week. Every night on the way home I'd go by his house just to check on him or just to sit and talk. He loved to talk. I want to ask you about the efforts made by doctors in Vegas to help Elvis shed some extra pounds. How did that work? They had figured out a way for him to lose weight by putting him to sleep for three weeks at a time, just waking to take liquids. At the end of it he'd gained ten pounds! A good rest but not much of a diet! What, in your opinion, was the most serious threat to Elvis’ health? Many fans would say it was his intake of drugs. Some fans are really ignorant of what really went on. Elvis had a colon complaint where he was born without a nerve supply to the colon and small intestine. A major problem was that nothing could move through the intestine because he didn't have the nerve to force it through. So, Elvis' colon was just getting bigger and bigger, it was simply huge at the time of his autopsy. Elvis asked why part of his colon just simply couldn't be removed. It was this problem that caused his big stomach. We talked to two or three doctors but because it was Elvis, they just wouldn't do it. It wasn't really being done that much in the '70s and they were scared to do it. Today there wouldn't be a problem. They wouldn't think twice about it. It was serious because when you get a build up of material in the gut it can get septic. You might survive, or you may die by the time the bacteria hits the blood stream. This was the reality of one of the illnesses that he had. What caused Elvis' voice to slur on stage? There was one time when I went to Vegas or Palm Springs when Elvis got mad at me and he cussed me out and we parted ways. He went out there and got on some heavy stuff. This wasn't something that he did that often. I assume this stuff wasn't coming from a proper doctor right? I don't know where he was getting it from, not that kind of thing anyway. Elvis called me everything imaginable and another doctor went on the next tour. The new doctor changed the medicine around that I was giving him and the stuff that he gave him was a heavy tranquilliser. The problem was that it had a side effect that would drop your blood pressure and last a long, long time. It could just be a few hours, or it could last twenty-four hours. Elvis just couldn't wake up. He'd go out there and he was still groggy and half asleep. He couldn't do his shows and he couldn't move. Did the Colonel or Vernon intervene? The Colonel and I were not real close but he called me and asked if I could rejoin the tour because things had gotten all screwed up. I said that I wasn't going to but if Elvis wants to call me to take back the things he said, then I might consider it, I just didn't know. Elvis did another bad show that night so the Colonel called me again and told me that I had to go back because the shows were getting terrible. Elvis was screwing things up, he couldn't remember what he was doing on stage. The Colonel said that they needed me to go back and figure out what was going on. So, Elvis did finally call and he told me he was sorry for what had happened. He asked if I'd go back, so I did. I found out that if he didn't use that particular drug, there was no problem with the shows. This was the only time, as far as I know, when he'd have such problems on stage. I really wanted to quit because my family was on my butt because I wasn't at home. My regular patients were on my butt saying that I was taking care of Elvis and not taking care of them. But you chose to go back on tour with Elvis, to sort out the damage done by the other doctor? You know, when Elvis was in the hospital he did well. He got all the attention he wanted. The only thing he didn't get was the drugs because everything had to go through the nurses at the hospital. I decided that we needed to do this when he was at home too, so I told Elvis that I wasn't going to give him medication through other people and that I was going to keep his medicine. We then moved a nurse into Graceland telling Elvis she was there to look after his Grandma. If Elvis needed something during the night, the protocol was left with her. I never left anything with him. Did you ever come across anything given to Elvis by the feel-good doctors in Vegas or Los Angeles? There was only one good thing that I learned through going to Elvis' house one time. I'd gone up to the bathroom to collect something that he'd left up there next to the sink. I found three bottles of pills, a thousand pills in each bottle. There were uppers, amphetamines, valium and codeine. When I threw those pills away Elvis got pissed off. I disposed of them right down the commode. Just think how hard it is to treat a grown man just like a child. You needed to be there to give him medicine when he needed it. He was an adult and he should have been able to read the label himself. It took a long time for him to buy that. Would you say that part of the problem was Elvis' addictive personality? Oh yeah, there was one time when Elvis came back from California and was almost dead. We took him straight from his plane to the hospital. Another doctor out in California was giving him shots of Demerol, which is a painkiller. His body had gone into shock and I had to detoxify him in the hospital. If there were such signs of polypharmacy (a drug cocktail), why wasn't he admitted more often? I admitted him several times into the hospital and the term polypharmacy means nothing. You take any cancer patient walking the street, almost any patient of any kind with a major disease; and they take six, eight, ten medications. But Elvis' dosages were getting larger because he was becoming immune to the effects. No, I can't think of one drug where this would be a problem. Let me give you an example. His usage was heaviest when he was on the road because things were more important to him than at any other time with the shows. He was afraid that if he didn't sleep he wouldn't do a good show. He would come home off the tours and he may go a week, ten days, two weeks without taking a thing. If he was addicted, he couldn't do that. So, I don't think he was immune to anything. You're saying that Elvis was in control of his intake? No, he wasn't in control, we were. When you're addicted to something you don't have any say so, you've got to have that drug. It's not something that you've got any mental control over. It's kind of confusing but yes, Elvis had an addictive personality, he would've loved it if somebody was there giving him something all the time. It must have got to the point where Elvis realised that he was in some kind of danger health wise. Yeah, he did. But when you need something, you can't rationalise. I tried to get him to go to a clinic but back in those days there weren't many around. I could only find one and that was in Arkansas. We hear about a whole series of drugs being given before and after each show. Well, that's true. Elvis had a lot of trouble with Arthritis and he could also suffer from a lot of disc trouble in his back and neck. We could actually predict that if he did a certain number on stage, then he'd hurt like hell afterwards. You know, he'd be snapping his neck around and doing a lot of gyrations. Doing a lot of karate stuff with his bad back. We'd have to treat all that just like any other series of sport injuries. You'd honestly say that everything you ever prescribed Elvis yourself was needed, nothing extra? Yes, the only thing that wasn't needed was placebos. And they are? The easiest way to make up a placebo is to break open a capsule, take the medicine out and put sugar in it, or salt, instead of the medication. So, that's the way we got around it. Otherwise, everything was given for a reason. Can you tell me a little about the racquetball venture? We got Elvis involved in racquetball because we were trying to build up some courts in the United States, we were trying to use his name. Elvis didn't put any money into it, he just agreed for us to use his name. His Daddy wasn't happy with the whole thing from the beginning because he didn't know about it. It was the only business venture that Elvis got into that his father didn't have anything to do with. Vernon was not a businessman by any stretch of the imagination. So, one of the guys involved out in Palm Springs somehow found out that one of the other guys who ran the business part of it was getting paid and had got himself car. The rest of us knew nothing about it. Well, he told Elvis about it, he didn't mention it to us, and so Elvis thought we were pulling something behind his back. His Daddy found out about it and told him to get out of the deal. So, Elvis never loaned you any money regarding the racquetball deal? He put in around $100,000 at the very end of it because there were a lot of bills that occurred through him pulling out, a lot of bills that we wouldn't have had if he had stayed there. Can we lift the mood a little by you telling me your fondest memory of Elvis? That may've been the time Elvis shot me (laughs). His Daddy had just been discharged from the hospital after having a heart attack. Elvis had made a trip out to the dentist's office and he'd asked him for some painkillers. He must've taken a couple of grocery sacks full. I told him that he wasn't going to have them so he started firing the gun. It was a wonder that his Daddy didn't have another heart attack. A bullet bounced off something in the room and I got burned across my chest. That sounds pretty terrifying. I bet you were worried there for a second. Not as worried as Elvis was (laughs). I know all you guys got along great. Any other stories from on the road? We scared the shit out of one of the guys one time. We gave him some red dye in a candy bar he was eating and when he urinated he thought he was dying, it was blood red. I was sitting there when he came in saying that he didn't want to flush the toilet until I'd seen what had happened. I told him to hang on until I'd finished on the phone, but I wasn't actually talking to anybody. He walked back and forth waiting. We had set him up by telling him that this was the way Felton Jarvis had gotten sick, by his urine going red, and he eventually lost his kidneys. You weren’t too cruel to each other then (laughs). You have a funny story from New Years Eve 1975 in Pontiac right? You know, Elvis was so nervous that night. It was so cold that he was afraid his throat wasn't going to hold up. What with the weather and everything that was going on, he insisted that we flew his throat doctor in from Las Vegas. I just told him that I had a friend who was a throat doctor and that he'd take a look at him. We got him in to attend to his throat and Elvis never knew a thing about it. He would have killed me. Just a regular doctor right? That's right (laughs). Well, I know your time is precious, thanks so much for meeting up and allowing me to talk openly with you. A pleasure, no prolem. (Our sincere thanks to Tom Salva and Russ Howe for their help with this interview.)

Dr. "Nick" George Constantine Nichopoulos - Elvis, We Care, Inc., Jerry Lee Lewis's Road Manager, FedEx Doc + Bio + Lawsuit before the Elvis douche

Dr Georges Nichopoulos

Linda & Dr. Nick leaving The Philadelphia Hilton Hotel - June 23rd 1974

Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Nichopoulos was moved to Anniston, AL during his infancy where his father, a Greek immigrant, opened a restaurant called "Gus' Sanitary Cafe." Dr. Nichopoulos earned his MD at Thunderbird University Medical School in 1959, after studying at the University of the South, Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama, and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He began treating Elvis in 1967, and took it on as a full time job in 1970 until Elvis' death in 1977. In 1985, he started a solo practice called We Care, Inc. After he was stripped of his credentials in 1995, Dr Nick worked for a short time as Jerry Lee Lewis's road manager. He later took a job evaluating medical insurance claims by FedEx employees. Legal Battles In 1980, he was indicted on 14 counts of overprescribing drugs to Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, as well as twelve other patients. The district-attorney ruled out murder charges because of the conflicting medical opinions about the cause of Presley's death. In 1977 alone, Nichopoulos had prescribed over 10,000 doses of amphetamines, barbiturates, narcotics, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, laxatives, and hormones for Presley. Dr. Nichopoulos claimed he had tried in vain to reduce Elvis' dependency, even going so far as to manufacture one thousand placebos for Elvis, but to no avail. The jury concluded that he had tried to act in the best interests of his patients. He was acquitted on all counts. Also in 1980, the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners found him guilty of overprescription, but decided that he was not unethical. They imposed three months' suspension of his licence and three years' probation. In 1995 Nichopoulos had his license permanently suspended by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners, after it was revealed that he had been overprescribing to numerous patients for years. Dr. Nichopoulos claimed it was for patients that suffered from inoperable chronic pain, but he was unsuccessful in his defense. During his many appeals, Dr Nick admitted to the board that he had overprescribed. 'I cared too much,' he told them. During his court cases many friends supported him, raising money and holding benefits to pay for court costs.

Book News The True Story of Elvis Presley and Dr. Nick For ten years Dr. George Nichopoulos, better known as "Dr. Nick", was one of Elvis's most trusted and valued advisors and personal physician. He and his son, Dean, who started first as his racquetball teacher and then as his trusted valet, were there to help maintain balance amid the craziness Presley's lifestyle demanded, and his fans have yet to fully understand. At the end, they were there to observe a proud, private Elvis trying desperately to cope with his career pressures, personal problems and failing health. Now Dr. Nick and Dean are collaborating with Elvis historian, Joe Russo on the book that Elvis's legacy deserves. It's a story filled with honesty and compassion that only they can tell. Put aside what you've heard before about Elvis's final days and get ready to understand for the first time, the inner workings of the man who was, and still is, the king of rock n' roll. Do you have any unresolved questions about Elvis's health, lifestyle or prescription drug dependency? Or about Dr. Nick's efforts to manage his illness and pain while Elvis strived to stay at the top of his game? Have you wondered what medical technology and experts could reveal today about Elvis's medical condition and the cause of his death? Dr. George Nichopoulos - Personal physician to Elvis Presley. He was Presley's confessor, confidant and life support system. He was "on call" to sooth Presley's concerns, phobias, and ailments. Presley looked upon Dr. Nick as a pseudo father-figure, and entrusted thoughts and personal details he shared with few others. Dr. Nick was there, on tour, at home and "behind closed doors". Dean Nichopoulos - Presley's personal valet for the last several years of his life. Presley referred to Dean as "the son I never had". He virtually "lived" at Graceland and was there to serve and assist Presley in his daily routine and on concert tours. Dean looked after all Presley's personal needs and was always present for motorcycle rides, racquetball games or whenever Presley decided to just have some fun. Joe Russo - Elvis historian and author of four books including ELVIS STRAIGHT UP with Joe Esposito. He also has been a performer himself for over seventeen years. Due to this duel persona, he is often referred to as the "rock n' roll writer".

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Dr. Nick and his black bag carry the 'Memories of Elvis' In the background, the music of Mozart and Beethoven plays softly, adding an air of refinement, even elegance, to the exhibit one floor above the clatter of a Tunica County casino. "I think it's important for people to come in and realize it's not a carnival," says Bobby Freeman, partner and promoter of Dr. George C. Nichopoulos. That's "Dr. Nick" to much of the world, which will remember the 72-year-old white-haired Memphis doctor as personal physician to Elvis Presley right up until Elvis's death. That was the death in 1977 attributed to either heart disease, to heart disease exacerbated by drugs, or to having enough drugs in his system to kill a barnful of farm animals. It's that last part that prompts Elvis Presley Enterprises chief executive officer Jack Soden to call Dr. Nick's "Memories of Elvis" exhibit at Hollywood Casino a "tacky, tasteless and unfortunate" enterprise. "It exploits whatever it is in human nature that makes people slow down and gawk at an auto accident." Squarely in the middle of the 100-piece exhibit is a black medical bag - Dr. Nick's - accented by 13 prescription bottles, one of them for the narcotic pain-relieving Dilaudid. It is one of the dozen or so prescription drugs found in Elvis's system after he was scooped from his bathroom floor, declared dead and inventoried like a chemical warehouse on Aug. 16, 1977. Dr. Nick has no qualms about the medical bag, the only exhibit item with an in-your-face quality. Nichopoulos was indicted, tried and, in 1981, acquitted on charges he had overprescribed drugs to Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and seven other people. In fact, there are so few qualms that the label on the exhibit begins: "This bag could be the most priceless object in rock-n-roll history..." The bag with the prescription baggage it implies prompts casino personnel to be wary of interviews with Dr. Nick. "It's very awkward for him, since he's aging, to be put on the spot during an interview," says Hollywood public relations and special events coordinator Jennifer Bennett. But Dr. Nick has been there, done that, and he appears unflappable. The trial that ended in his acquittal in 1981 followed months of intense, finger-pointing, national exposure. Nichopoulos's story, part of it honed with the help of high-priced lawyer James Neal, became second nature to the doctor, who says he paid Neal $250,000. The doctor's license was revoked in 1995 on similar charges, and he now is retired. Dr. Nick doesn't flinch at any question involving drugs.

Eclectic collection sees court tussle in Del. WILMINGTON, Del. — Elvis wasn't in the building, but that didn't stop the first round in a court fight over who controls the right to exhibit unusual memorabilia touched by The King — such as the nasal device used to irrigate his sinuses before concerts. Robert Gallagher, a Nevada entertainer who sings original rockabilly tunes, is battling Napa, Calif., businessman Richard Long over items collected by Elvis Presley's personal physician, George Nichopoulos. Nichopoulos, known as "Dr. Nick," kept the items in boxes in his garage and vaults, said Gallagher, who calls the collection "the greatest find since the Titanic." According to court documents, the exhibit, Dr. Nick's Memories of Elvis, includes: •A laryngeal scope used to examine Presley's "chronic sore throat & tonsils." A Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum handgun that Presley reportedly gave to Dr. Nick. •A stuffed toy dog that Presley once threw at Dr. Nick. •A prescription bottle dated Aug. 15, 1977, the day before Presley died. •A gold watch engraved on the back with "from E.P. and Priscilla 10-29-70." Presley and wife Priscilla were married in 1967. On Monday, the judge in the case, Leo Strine, granted a motion to let the collection be appraised for insurance purposes. Gallagher says it's worth $250 million. The exhibit is stored in an airport hangar in Nevada, according to Long's lawyer, David Finger. Gallagher, however, said that "for security reasons" he would not confirm where the hangar is located. "My life would definitely be in danger, there's no question about it," he said. He did say the exhibit hasn't been shown since 2001. According to Finger and court documents, Gallagher and Betty Franklin, his girlfriend and business partner, worked out a deal with Dr. Nick to exhibit the memorabilia for 50% of the profits, but Nichopoulos retained ownership of the collection. The deal also said that they would get 50% of the money if the exhibit was ever sold, court documents say. Nichopoulos, who is not a party to the litigation, could not be reached for comment. Elvis Presley Enterprises of Memphis, the company that controls Presley's name, image and likeness, isn't involved with the Dr. Nick exhibit and has no comment on the dispute, said Kevin Kern, the company's media manager. Long, chief executive of Regulus Group, a provider of payment services, says he put up $1.2 million for an exhibit company that he and Gallagher would own, along with Franklin. Once the money changed hands, Gallagher and Franklin experienced sellers' remorse and never delivered the collection to the new company, Finger said. He also said $1 million of the money went to buy the memorabilia collection from Nichopoulos. "If Gallagher refunds Mr. Long's investment, we will walk away from the business in a New York minute," Finger said. Long wants Strine to rule that his deal with Gallagher and Franklin is enforceable. If the partners can't get along, Long wants the judge to order that the collection be sold and the proceeds distributed. Gallagher alleges that Long is trying to seize the exhibit without paying him, and he wants the Delaware Court of Chancery to rule that the deal with Long is not valid. The court is hearing the case because the exhibit company was incorporated in Delaware. The case might not go to trial until late summer. On Monday, Strine questioned Finger about possible dissolution of the collection, perhaps through a famous auction house. "Doesn't Sotheby's have a nasal irrigation specialist?" Strine asked. Maureen Milford reports daily for The News Journal in Wilmington

"The confusion was that no one really investigated what happened at the time. Elvis had these (prescriptions) written in his name. The medications were for the whole orchestra, not just Elvis," says Nichopoulos. His testimony in 1981, supported by much of Elvis's entourage, convinced a jury that Nichopoulos had, in fact, rescued Elvis from drug overdoses and potential drug overdoses time and again.

Elvis could and did get prescriptions from other doctors or dentists. "There were always people with him who would give him drugs. Druggies always want to share," says Nichopoulos.

Elvis sought out one doctor who supposedly was using acupuncture to treat him. His patients were hailing the doctor as a miracle worker, but it turned out his needles were used to inject Demerol, says Nichopoulos. To help protect Elvis, Dr. Nick says he often substituted sugar pills for drugs. In fact, he says the exhibit's prescription bottle for Dilaudid was one of the few "prescriptions" he was able to order directly from a pharmaceutical company with sugar-pill placebos in place of the real thing.

Dr. Nick runs through the list of maladies for which Elvis was being treated and for which doctors might prescribe a wide range of drugs. There is what the doctor calls "secondary diabetes" treated with oral medication. Arthritis in his neck and back stemming from and aggravated by stage routines and karate. Glaucoma. Hypertension, or high blood pressure. An enlarged colon that contributed "to his bloated appearance." He had a chronic sore throat from overuse of his voice, and he had chronic sinus problems. Dr. Nick says he treated the sinus problems not with drugs but with a recipe of one quart water, one teaspoon salt and one teaspoon baking soda, snorted through a glass device on display in the exhibit.

There were rumors of bone cancer, but Nichopoulos says he's "not sure" about that and that doctors at Baptist Memorial Hospital thought that abnormal cells that led to the cancer rumors may have been caused by something else.

The exhibit opened Jan. 7 and closes Thursday. By midweek this week, 4,500 people had seen it with almost no complaints about the medical bag and prescription reminders of Elvis's untimely demise. "If they complained, I would sit down with them and talk to them about it," says Dr. Nick, who plans to take the exhibit on tour, possibly to other casinos, to Europe and to parts of rural America where exhibitors seldom go.

Freeman, head of the private-label record company MCI (it stands for music, comedy and impressions), says the medical bag is, frankly, an intentionally controversial draw for the exhibit. "It's controversial, but it's history. It's real," he says, trying to restrict photographs to avoid close-up shots of the bag.

Other exhibition items include several autographed photographs of Elvis to Dr. Nick, pieces of Elvis's TCB ("taking care of business") jewelry, a green cat's-eye ring with filigreed gold accents and several watches that were gifts from Elvis. Freeman removes one gold Piaget watch from its glass case to show the inscription on the back: "To E. D. (Dr. Nick)." The E. D. stands for "Elvis's Doctor," says Freeman.

A third partner in the exhibition, Betty Franklin, a former office worker in Nichopoulos's medical practice, says one of the favorite items in the exhibit is a book, The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. The label on the exhibit says notes in the book's margin were made by Elvis, including the note, "When you're not in love, you're not alive."

A visitor on Tuesday night helped confirm Franklin's assessment. "I liked the Gibran saying best," says Betty Cooper, 74, of Fairdale, Ky., a suburb of Louisville. Cooper also thought it was a nice touch to put a single red rose on each exhibit table.

That was Freeman's idea, a rose, as if a tribute, in honor of Elvis at each table.

"I think it's very tasteful," says Dave Rooney, 54, of Nashville, an insurance manager for Mutual of Omaha. He says he and his wife, Nita, touring the exhibit with him, were moved by reminders of Elvis, the "fat" jokes that must have hurt and the drugs that helped put Elvis to sleep, wake him up and reduce his weight. "I think there was a lot of scapegoating going on over that (drugs). On the road, he would have other sources. He was just a human being like the rest of us."

Another visitor, Jimmy Hargrave, 60, a retired revenue commissioner and tax collector, of Atkins, Ala., says the exhibit "was interesting." And the medical bag was "no problem. Why would it be? I thought it was good to look at. I think everything about Elvis is interesting."

Betty Franklin, the partner with Freeman and Nichopoulos, says she doesn't understand the remarks by Soden at Elvis Presley Enterprises. "I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I personally would not make a judgment on anything I had not seen. We don't want to hurt Graceland. We wish them the best and wish they would wish us the best."

Soden admits he has not seen the exhibit, but has received several press releases inviting people to it. "You'd think they'd put their best spin on it, but it still sounds stupid . . . There's a whole world out there that's basically still responding to Elvis's music. Then there's Dr. Nick's medicine bag and some prescriptions on a table in Tunica. It leads back to tacky, tasteless and unfortunate. It's unfortunate they didn't have anything more to do with their time."

Franklin says she and her partners are trying to decide which invitation to accept for the next show - at a casino on the Gulf Coast, in Atlantic City or in Europe.

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