Did you know about Anesthesia Addiction, in fact its fairly common? M. Jackson?

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I was talking about this w. a friend and after talking I wondered if Micheal Jackson could of found himself addicted to the administration of anesthesia because he has had SO MANY surgeries. It makes sense right? And there has always been that question over whether or not plastic surgery is addictive and if not, why then would people go past the point of necessary surgery to have MORE done. Micheal Jackson lost half of his nose and still wanted it and even against his doctors orders he wanted it. According to a New Republic article, "Anesthesia is the only medical specialty in which physicians draw up, label, and account for their own drugs. As such, they have more opportunities than other physicians to abuse those drugs. "Anesthesiologists are left alone with open ampules of highly potent narcotics, " explains [Mayo Clinic anesthesiologist Keith] Berge, "and it's easy to divert for their own use." Before MJ died his Nutritionist Cherylin Lee claimed that Micheal Jackson literally BEGGED her for Diprivan claiming he desperately needed it for his insomnia--but an addict will say anything to get that fix. Well, after getting home I looked online to find more about Anesthesia and found out that ADDICTION is very come among anesthesiologist, especially young ones. Mark Gold, one of the pioneers of research done in the early 90's on the effects of second hand smoking has even pointed this out and to him this was a no-brainer. They tested lab rooms for traces of the drugs and found them which suggest Anesthesiologist were inhaling the gases from administering to their patients while they sat at their patients heads. Encouraging doctors to use masks is one measure being taken to raise awareness. Here's what one doctor said of these young students: "Because only the top medical students are able to enter anesthesia residencies, it's a specialty stocked with overachievers. "They're driven and they don't know how to take care of themselves well, they're too compulsive about their work, they can't let cases go, they're almost wound too tight," [Paul] Earley [medical director of the Talbott Recovery Campus in Atlanta] says of anesthesiologists. "And then, when the drug comes along, they just feel like, ahhhhhhhhh, I can finally relax. And it's in that experience that the setup for continued use occurs. If you've been wound tight all your life, the first time you use narcotics, you say to yourself, this is how normal people must feel." ... [b] I just do not think there exist that same awareness like you find over heroin, crack, and drugs like meth and its time doctors be held accountable! Instead, they get incentives to prescribe drugs, its like if theres a prescription and a doctor involved THEN IT MUST BE SAFE?! I think drug companies knew what they were doing 15 years ago when the big prescription drug boom started with anti-depressants, adhd drugs, heart medications, cholesterol drugs--the drug for anything syndrome[/b].