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Does cocaine use cause Parkinson's disease?


Some hollywood people implied that Fox's parkinson's was his own fault, and that implied that he did cocaine for a portion of his life.

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If that would be the case, 8/10 Hollywood stars would have Parkinson's.

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...and 9/10th of politicians.

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And 10/10 musicians! xD

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… or even 9 out of 11!

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I think he was more of a drunk that a snorter.

Still, anything that causes dramatic changes in brain chemistry would be as suspect as other possible causes.

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It wasn't coke, it was Pepsi which caused his disease, he drank tons of Diet Pepsi, which contains aspartame, a neurotoxic sweetener.
https://www.jcrows.com/aspartame.html

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I laughed out aloud at your pun! 🤣

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Anti-psychotics do. I kept the dose low and have ticks or resting tremors in my neck mainly. But once I sleep they go away.

Theres an andrewbird song “nervous tick motion” I like

If youre having mental from whatever problems the song get annoying though

I honestly wanted to go back to college and the song annoyed me because I though it was about an over prescribed truck driver lol and I didnt want to be a truck driver.

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He was also a heavy smoker which may also have triggered it. Or he was just predisposed to it no matter what he did.

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