Jim Ross Speaks About His Drug Addiction, Breaking The Habit
Jim Ross spoke to The A.V. Club on his past drug addiction, which you can see his full comments in the video above. Ross was asked about his autobiography, Slobberknocker: My Life In Wrestling, and if there was anything that Ross was surprised about including. Ross said:
"You're going to hear about my addiction to drugs. I was addicted to Ambien and Xanax, together, with Crown Royal. I was on Uranus, and Pluto, and Neptune, and everywhere else late at night. [Because] I had severe sleep apnea ? and still do – I stopped breathing 99 times in an hour in a sleep test. So I wasn't in real great shape with that deal."
Breaking his addiction:
"Ambien is a temporary medication for insomnia. Temporary. Not ten years. ?It's not a [revolutionary] story, it's eye-opening, and shows it can happen to anybody. It was like smoking, I just decided one day to quit smoking, and stopped. Done, I'm done."
Again, you can listen to Ross' full comments in the video above.
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