Paris Jackson Encourages Psychiatrists To Stop Handing Out “Addictive Medication Like Candy”

Paris Jackson urges psychiatrists to find a “better vetting process” than handing “out addictive medication like candy.”

“There should be a better vetting process [in everything]: before you medicate — or something even more dangerous, like selling a gun — you should vet them,” Jackson told LVR Magazine.

“It’s important in all kinds of situations. It could be as simple as a job, or as complicated as medicine or a weapon. Psychiatrists hand out addictive medication like candy without really vetting the patient. There is no harm in vetting.”

Jackson, 23, is the daughter of Michael Jackson, who died in 2009 from a cardiac arrest resulting from a fatal combination of prescription drugs.

Paris has also struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, as well as suicide attempts, Page Six reported.

In 2017, during an interview with Rolling Stones, Jackson said, “[I attempted suicide] multiple times. It was just once that it became public,” In June 2013, she took 20 Motrin tablets and slit her wrists and later revealed the incident was her “third strike.”

Jackson went to Utah to receive treatment at a behavior modification school as a  sophomore and junior in high school. She later said that in addition to solving some of her problems, the treatment created some too.

“There are a lot of things at play in those schools,” she explained in her new LVR magazine interview. “They can shut down and reopen under a different name to avoid lawsuits, and it depends on how state laws work.”

“If a kid decides to call their parents and say, ‘Please get me out of here,’ that center will likely hang up the phone and call the parents back to say ‘Don’t listen to them, they are manipulating you, doing everything they can to get out of here.’ Who are you going to listen to, a troubled teen or clinical professional?”

In 2017, Jackson said a doctor prescribed the same anti-depressants her father had, but she wasn’t taking any medications at the moment.