At the ART HOUSE Gala honoring Nan Goldin on Wednesday, the actor and advocate for the movies focused her speech on the alleged drug pushing she allegedly encountered while her child was receiving treatment for a skiing accident in the hospital.
I worked as a model in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I spent a lot of time at Studio 54. Many of my friends are no longer with us. “Stone, 65, at The Bowery called attention to the medical plight by saying, “Don’t f— with me. ”.
The Casino celebrity continued, “Do not cross the line between health, healing, and abuse. “My brother entered the country illegally and wound up in Attica [Prison].”. ”.
Stone spoke about the difficulty she had in convincing medical professionals to stop giving her child OxyContin earlier in her speech.
The medication, which falls under the opioid classification, carries a sizable risk of dependence and addiction. With the opioid epidemic in the United States well-documented and the rise in drug overdose deaths, the topic has grown incredibly contentious.
I had to have it reinserted in his chart at each and every trip for the next day and a half. If possible, could you read it to me again? Over the course of the day and a half it took for him to have a rod and seven pins put in his leg, I got six calls. I was told why my son needed OxyContin and that no other medication would be effective by four nurses, an anesthesiologist, doctors, and others who had nothing to do with my son’s condition.
“Stop using drugs now!”.
When Stone’s son turns 18, I genuinely believe he will be able to judge for himself how awful something is.
Anaphylaxis?
Not really that bad, right?
After the sixth call, I said, “I’m going on CNN tomorrow, and if I get another call, I’m going to say that your hospital is a drug cartel.”.
“Nan and I don’t seem to have a problem with painkillers. Not us. She continued, “We oppose paid drug traffickers.
Nan Goldin, the creator of Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (PAIN), is well known for her work bringing attention to the HIV/AIDS crisis, the opioid crisis, and LGBTQ+ populations. Funds were raised to fight AIDS and homelessness in New York City on Wednesday at the Bailey House’s inaugural dinner and auction.
“My entire community was lost to me. This condition was initially unknown. They referred to it as “gay cancer.”. Goldin, 69, addressed the audience and said, “I try to keep my people alive.
Stone hasn’t shied away from speaking out in partnership with Goldin on a variety of topics, such as the AIDS crisis, which she claims “nearly destroyed” her career in the 1990s when so few people were talking about it.
The women’s rights activist revealed to Variety in 2021 how her “extreme feminist” father instilled these values in her. She constantly fights back against the double standards women face with aging and sexism.
“He came from affluence, oil drilling, and there was a terrible accident when he was a young child. Three months after his father passed away, the entire estate was given to another family, Stone recalled.
“He thought it was so unfair that his mother didn’t get half of it just because she was a woman,” she continued. I was forced to adopt this feminist mindset by my father. So much so that I never considered myself to be a feminist. The guidelines in my home were as follows. ”.
In 2000, Stone and her ex-husband Phil Bronstein adopted their son Roan, then 23 years old, becoming parents for the first time. She adopted her second son, Laird, who is now 18 years old, in 2005. Quinn, her third son, is now 16 years old.
The actress from Silver has been open about the numerous tragedies she’s gone through in her life, both before and after becoming a mother, including multiple miscarriages.
“As females, there is no place for us to talk about how serious this loss is. In 2022, Stone wrote on an Instagram post from PEOPLE, “I lost nine children by miscarriage. “It is not a small thing, neither physically nor emotionally, yet we are made to believe that we must deal with it alone and in private with some sort of failure. ”.
Stone continues to see the lessons in her life experiences despite her difficulties, including the loss of her beloved brother Patrick in February.
According to Stone in an interview with AARP in April 2021, “I’ve survived everything — sexual harassment, miscarriages, a brain bleed, divorce, and a lightning strike.”. “I don’t have time to play around. I’m here to be a good daughter, a present and active parent, and an active member of society. Everything else is merely an interruption. ”.
