‘Pocket Full of Pills’: Alex Murdaugh Fed Addiction with Dozens of Pills Per Day
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- Опубликовано: 23 фев 2023
- Prosecutor Creighton Waters asked Alex Murdaugh for more details about his addiction to opiates. The disgraced lawyer testified the number of pills he took each day varied anywhere from a dosage of 1000mg to 2000mg. “I had a pocket full of pills,” Murdaugh said claiming he had the substance on him while talking to police on June 8, 2021, shortly after his wife and son were murdered.
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When they cant convince you, they'll confuse you.
They'll "try" to confuse you.
He's tryin!
Prosecution and defense are confusing things. Hung jury.
Good point
Baffle them with b.s.
Can't blame drugs for everything bad, especially something as serious as murder. People scare me.
Yee its easy to blame everything else than themselves
Drugs will definitely bring you down low enough to murder someone is that an excuse? No!
Yes. No pills on earth will make anyone do first degree murder.
well it's only prosecution that could blame his drugs use for murders, since they don't have enough evidence for the initial argument that they developed in opening statement ... anyways, we will see
True, so true!
Alex displays LOTS of spontaneous energy and animation when remembering how sick he was when he used a different pain pill, yet has next to no recall regarding personal conversations he had or physical interactions he shared on the day his wife and son were murdered.
Well I’m not saying he is telling the truth but one is exclusive to the other they are not the same type of memories at all. And you’ve gone through what he is recalling multiple times if not hundreds but the day of the murders is just one single incident
@@lsuronak1992 Not until Paul's Snapchat was revealed in court, did Alex remember to mention having been at the kennels minutes before half his family was murdered. His memory is very "exclusive" indeed.
I am not making excuses for what he did but as an ex addict I understand why he remembers the drugs. That's why addiction is so hard to get over. Your brain only remembers the good times when you are high to pull you back.
I don't care how addicted he was. Many people are addicted. They don't blow anyone's brains out. He blames everything on the drugs and yet he claims they made him function better. Which is it??
That's the truth. I'm sick and tired of people blaming their nasty reactions on drugs.
He isn't saying DRUGS made him do it!!
@ Donna Bittner I don’t agree. I believe Alex is enjoying discussing his alleged drug use and thinks it’s his way out of this dog and pony show.
Professional LIAR
His choice of words gets me - I allowed my staff to be misled. He makes it sound like he allowed someone else to do it! He's just not that sorry despite his admissions
Woah. While I heard him say those words, the importance of their meaning completely whooshed over my head. Thanks for pointing that out.
Narcissists are never sorry for the pain they caused. That's why he's deflecting when being asked questions. Going on tangents, repeating the question back to Waters before he answers. AM is caught up in the web he weaved, & now he can't get out.
Alex is detached. In denial over murdering his wife and son. LOVES discussing his alleged drug addiction. Trying to charm the jury with his victim role. Alex rattles on and on. Nothing but lies.
He is well-versed in the court room and I believe he's doing that on purpose
Um that's how addicts talk.. it's not that he isn't sorry, it's that the person he was at that time wasn't him. None of this addiction & stealing has to do with murdering anyways the prosecution is boring me.
He could have done so much good for his family and town- but he let the power, money, drugs take over, such a sad situation for all the victims.
Crook
Unfortunately no matter how much money you have - this monster addiction does not discriminate and it’s for sure a disease
That applies to all wealthy people!
Opiates😈 but the pharmacist will give them to you. So that’s OK isn’t it……….. 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈
The addiction was def his downfall and created a monster
He is lying now like he has lied before… cannot change that in a person… crooked keeps doing crooked things. Police should be investigated what they did all these years that things were going around this family … it’s unbearable and unbelievable to think that Paul was still using arms when he was guilty of a crime
ABSOLUTELY!
Agreed cops swept 🧹
Agree. Paul wasn’t convicted yet; I think his trial was coming up. He was indicted though on several felony accounts.
His own lawyers look at him like " what the h*ll Alec" .
They oughta check if any psychologists were consulted for addiction in the area. Perhaps mother and son were planning an intervention, and confronted him instead.
The text messages support your theory, so I totally agree with you!!!💯✊🏾
That’s not why he murdered. He murdered for the family and to avoid divorce. Maggie would soon find out about all the theft, she would have been ‘embarrassed and left. Most of the property was in her name ( sold for 1$) by Alex. The son caused it all and the public was crying for justice bringing shame. Alex is a criminal! Just listen to his jail calls……all of them. He wasn’t on pills then.
He already had done that a few times tho? Remember what his son said? They already had done a few interventions for him.. he'd gone to rehab I believe twice already. So why would he randomly kill them now?
can't diminish acts by blaming drugs
is he on oxycodone right now
@@iWatier no he is sober now.. also it's the prosecution bringing up his addiction not the other way around.
Court system does it all the time.
Liar. Didn’t bring his phone to the Kennel so he could hide he was NOT at the kennel
I am a critical care nurse. There is no way he could have taken these huge dosages and still be alive. There must have been either selling going on or other unknown activity. He needed money, maybe this is where he was making it. He would have someone else do the selling. I just can’t believe he took these amounts. Withdrawal would have been horrendous, which could easily result in violent behaviour.
Thank you for explaining -- If he was on so many drugs - could he have killed his wife and son and not remembered?
@@Ela-cw7fi If you take those amount of drugs, you're not able to walk.
He is lying about the amount he was taking. Right on, he would be dead and full if poop
@@Ela-cw7fi Absolutely, if he had not taken enough pills. Withdrawal on these amounts would be horrendous. In addition, he would have had a respiratory arrest, on the amounts he was on. These drugs suppress breathing. Tolerance is an factor. However based on the extremely high dosages he was taking it just does not make any sense. Something else is going on here.
@@cq9882 • Hi, I just wanted to respectfully reply to you about the questioning of his intake - I am a LCDC (licensed chemical dependency counselor) and I promise what he’s saying about giving him energy is very much what I witnessed with my ex. My husband is the GM at the Jaguar dealership in Houston and he was literally like a bb in a tin can busy! It didn’t put him on his face. So while I know everyone is different, there is a way to consume that much Rx and function - xoxo, denise
I know the pain. Been on opiates 20 years. Since I was 15. I wanted to stop but withdrawals are scary
He was selling them....$$$$$$$$
Yes, I said that. And something went wrong. it is possible that drug dealers killed his family. Maybe he didn't pay or maybe stole from them. The amount of money he desappeared with is enormous to be just for consumption.
did you take 60 pills per day though
@@011egis I know ppl who did 60-80 a day when they had the money
@@011egis but I use to be bad on them too but I didn’t have money to do but 3-5 30s
1,500 mgs of oxycodone a day is insane. I don't believe someone his age could take that much. He is just saying that high of a quantity so they don't go looking for the money he stashed away for Buster.
💯
It is an insane amount but I believe it. I used to take 10 30s a day and got to a point where I stopped feeling high… I would have taken a lot more if I had the money. If you have the money and access it just turns Into a free fall.
As a nurse I made some comment about this. You are correct, he would be dead on the amount he is saying. He may have had someone selling for him.
Opioid tolerance can go pretty high
Alec couldn’t have possibly consumed that dosage daily. He’d be so severely constipated that his discomfort would be visible.
He’s a clever legal professional who I’d certainly want to fight my battles, (although wouldn’t trust him to pay up). He is very suave and calm, I can see how easily he manipulated his victims.
BUT he is like a child telling you a ridiculous lie, when he’s expecting the jury to believe his consumption of opioids. I do hope that they will follow up with a medical professionals view of his stated self medicated dosages and their side effects. As his functioning would not have been capable at those strengths.
I wonder if his lawyer told him not to ramble and just answer the questions in as few words as possible ? He is very annoying
He gets A+ in Babbling101
How is he even still alive IF he took that many???
U forget u aren’t a millionaire but if u did u would take unlimited amount
He is lying. He would know exactly how much he needed every day. I want to know how he managed the constipation caused by 1000mg-2000mg/day! Gallons of prune juice & miralax??
He’s an attorney. He worked it out with a pencil.
He’s lying about being a pill addict.
Yup he's trying to switch his argument to be about how drugs made him do it. Cyz his other arguments were failing
Agree. Lying about where the stolen money went too. Does nothing but lie. Where is the 8-10 million he stole ? Certainly not for pills.
He maybe lying about the **amount** he was taking but he can describe the effects too well to say he’s lying about having an addiction.
Sorry. Prosecutors let him talk too much. They are hoping for a contradiction but he talks to just talk.
It's working. It's "giving him enough rope", to effectively hang himself.
Changed the entire story to fit with the time WOW
If this DUDE is found NOT GUILTY the jurors should be investigated for STUPIDITY
just because your feelings are hurt it does not mean you are above the way our laws work
I have some reasonable doubt so far. You have to follow the facts 🤷🏼♀️
If he's not guilty I would bet corruption or something. This is so blatantly obvious. The fake enemies, trying to set up his dealer for his family's murders. How tf does someone try to kill themselves by getting shot in the head and then have the time to call 911 lmao
😂
Or jury tampering
CAN this guy give a straight answer??? At this pace, this trail are gonna go on for months. He LOVES talking about his addiction and he is trying to sound like a victim.
He MISLED no one. HE LIED. The prosecution should call him out on that
Your right this is a long trail.
They gave him rope to hang himself.
How many (much) , and what, was he taking for constipation. He would have been highly constipated as opiates cause the villi, which are in your intestines and cause food to be passed through, as well as peristalsis, to be effectively anaesthetised.
2000mg a day, he better have some good laxative. Because I know he couldn't take a s***.
Alex is very good at deflection, and hyper-aware of how he’s being perceived. He’s terrible when it comes to getting away with double homicide and covering his tracks. After stealing from people in need that are suffering a loss of some form, I guess he came to believe he was bulletproof. With a badge.
It took him 10 minutes of explanation to say how many pills he took a day? . . . the jury isn't going to like that. Say you were asked about how many joints a day do you smoke . . . and say you have smoked 20 years, the correct answer would be 1-5 joints on average a day. Easy right. Alex is deflecting.
You literally have no idea what addiction is like. Nevertheless it absolutely doesn’t matter at all how many pills he took. He had opiates in his bloodstream 24/7 enough to make an average person drop dead. But his tolerance was his so high by this time. He was literally
High as a kite for 20 years straight
@@PrinceOfTheCity1 buster is that you?
He just LOVES to hear himself talk!
Please. The poor jurors sat through 2-weeks of prior bad acts already. Most of the evidence in this trial isn’t evidence pertaining to this crime. Now the prosecution is trying to use character assassination to prove murder. This whole drawn out mess is going to end in a hung jury.
@@lstruggy yes I’m his son because I understand opiate addiction. Oh that was a joke? My bad , hahaha You’re so funny ! 😂
He just admitted he was guilty of something bad at the end there. Driving with pills he could convince himself they weren't following him in a matter of seconds but he couldn't convince himself that when they got murdered? I wonder what he felt guilty about then
Because that’s what it seems like every time a rich person does something wrong and they killed somebody they don’t have to go to jail
Yep...oj
@@joy-115 if he had a drug problem why kill his family he could’ve killed himself he was ripping off his clients and he got busted now he saying he has a drug addiction he told the court yesterday that he was lying on the stand when the prosecutors were asking him questions and he lied to investigators on the stand yesterday he saying it’s about his drug addiction no it’s about him being a thief and getting Busted he killed his wife in cold blood and he killed his young son in cold blood I have no respect for this man he’s a killer
@@robertboettinger4102 yes he is
@@joy-115 since he lied on the stand that judge should’ve said what did you lie about you just admit yesterday a lying on the stand and lying to Investigators when you were being cross-examination by your lawyer he needs to get the death penalty
Yes. America has a two tiered justice system. One for the rich and another for the poor. We have a massive class problem.
Did he say he took 100 30 MG oxys a day? Or did I hear that wrong?
Not one answer he gives is simple and direct. He's already admitted to stealing millions from those who trusted him, even from a severely disabled client. His claim he didn't kill is of no value.
He can’t even be honest about how many pills on the day I could take them at night 24 hours a day
Think Alex would have been better off not getting on the stand
murdaugh thinking he should deny being at the kennels at almost the time of the murders is a sign of guilty knowledge. if it happened while he was at his parents' home, why would it occur to him to deny he was at the kennels beforehand? because he KNEW how tight the time line was going to be.
Paul had the nerve to talk about his gfs dad! Look at how big of mess your daddy is! The irony and karma of it all!
Well he is not here anymore so I think that subject is moot. He may have acted like an entitled boy and he may not have always been the best person but let him rest in peace
"Paw Paw". Lmao
His acting is on point, however, let us not forget his GPS placed him at the scene and time of the crime.
Imagine if he would of overdosed his wife and son would still be here.
What an annoying witness! He won't answer simple questions 😂 And those nicknames!
Yes, the nicknames are so annoying and so strange.
I suffered a brain injury and numerous physical injuries alongside it. I am on 50 mg twice a day. My doctor says he's suprised I can even function on that amount of oxycodone so I have NO idea how this guy could apparently take 1000mg a day without dying.
Righttttt! I’ve had multiple surgeries and was on them for years and got addicted quickly. I’m sober now! But no effin way her took that much!
Right... I was on 300mg before biologic medicine came out.... Usually $2 a gram on the street...1200mg I call b.s. if you don't have pain you would be asleep on those high doses.
And 1 oxycodone is not like 10 hydrocodone
@@dagmastr12 he said oxycotton
@@alienslime8119 oxycontin is just time release oxycodone 10mg of oxycodone is not quite double the pain killing effect as 10mg hydrocodone ... The 10 times more powerful is not correct
Did maggie know he took pills like candy ? i bet paw paw was on them too.
He has to keep asking to repeat so he can fit his stories
Agreed
Only addiction Alex had was to money and stealing it.
lying addiction also
@@011egis yes definitely
pocket full of pills,and an empty cranium
If he was on the golf cart at the kennels in relation to the height of the gun in the shootings, it's that the right height the investigators were talking about? Could he have been on the cart and shot them?
Sometimes it is best not to say anything - rather than keep digging yourself into a deeper hole.....
How do you function as a human being on this? Call the expert doctor
Impossible for someone to be alive after taking so many pills , his liver would be dead even if he is still alive ,but what I don’t understand what the help did he do with all that money he stole ?because he stole a lot what was he doing with that money .
Oxy dont have tylenol so it isnt as bad on liver/kidney.. percocet has tylenol
I could bet my life on it that he's on Methadone or Suboxone right now. Because if not, he wouldn't be sitting up on that stand, he would be miserable, trust me, he would still have withdrawal symptoms. But right now hes talking like if he were high. That's how I know they have him on Methadone or Suboxone.
Seriously withdrawl symptoms 2 years later🙄
He's not on anything. He likley hasn't been on any drugs. He's lying
Somebody was / is blackmailing Alex. They have something on him that is even more shameful to him than what he is going through now. And he is worried that if he reveals the blackmail plot something bad will happen to Buster.
Exactly
How did he even become a lawyer with no ability to recall anything specific. Every explanation is some cockamamie story
How will he survive prison without his pills?
Can almost guarantee he’ll be back on opioids when in prison.
He's already talking about his addiction in the past so I guess it won't be an issue
He mentioned he has paranoia there’s another admission of guilt.
anyone who has there family killed like his family was would be paranoid
am’s lawyers are looking away to stop themselves from laughing. 🤣
If you notice they'll send him signals by covering there mouths, scratching there heads. He'll stop talking or change the subject. Yesterday they were signaling him the whole cross exam
Even they know he's guilty. 🤷♀️
He probably told his lawyers "guys I'm a GREAT lawyer, let me handle this"
This man is making his trial fucus be regarding pain pills as in his precise explanations.
He says he was taking Oxycodone probably mixed in with some Oxycontin. What??? Oxycodone and Oxycontin are the same thing. Oxycontin is just the brand name and Oxycodone is the chemical.
one is a instant release and the other one is a slow release pain killer, still the same just different absorption.
He’s getting his math wrong. There is no way anyone is taking FIFTY oxy30s in a day. He probably meant to say 500mg a day total which would be around 12 pills per day, which is a lot bc the 30mgs are really strong. You don’t start with 30s. He probably started with 10mgs pills and worked his way up to 30mgs
I just heard 1000 mg
It's possible
So now people are believing the proven liar?! Pfff. He is lying about EVERYTHING.
They should have a doctor to explain what this kind of dosage would do to a person. Would this kind of dose not kill a person. He is trying to blame everything on his drug use
I myself am a recovering opioid addict and I was taking 30mg pills, and ain’t no way that someone can take that much and function. Yea there are functional addicts, but ain’t no way he can take that much and be able to do anything, let alone not overdose. His story just isn’t true. Yeah he may of been an addict. But ain’t no way he took that much.
Like I said before $10M doesn’t equate to just opiate pills for 20 yrs ain’t no way u and I know it
Exactly! No effin way! I’m also a recovering opioid addict as well, and there is no way he took that much.
I agree cuz I know too. It's another lie. Literally, his lips are moving!
@@lstruggy I'm wondering where he got them from in those quanities? He was living in a very small town. He and his family were a very prominent family. I wonder if part if the money was spent in payoffs? He wouldn't want anyone to know he was an addict. Maybe someone was blackmailing him.
@@tonibiava1047 honestly when ur around young adults n college people like Alex acquiring drugs is very easy. Some of that money probably secured in an overseas offshore account that buster has access to and some to maintain his lavish lifestyle
That man lies and breathes in tandem.
2,000 mg? Sir, that's 2 grams.
Unbelivable
Let me be perfectly clear, I don't know when I decided to lie...
He's been taking about 2.8 tablets every hour over 24 hours.....what a con
the woman behind the defense questioning @ 3:40 is shocked by the amount.
I do not believe that anybody can take that much and still be alive.
It would be hard to take a s*** if you took that much.
Every single word he said about the pain pills is 100% percent the truth. Sad but true.
No possible way he took in pills what he spent and not be dead
You answered my question because I was wondering if it’s as bad as he’s saying
The amount isn’t possible is it?
Yup.. you sadly can function and let that tolerance fly high esp with access to endless amounts! The IR formula does nothing for helping with that either!
@@bethanywhite877 it potentially is possible. Tolerance knows no bounds with oxycodone
the disease is wicked
60 pills a day?
Seems impossible.
Hes lying.
@@Psychedwithnursevalerie oh it's definitely not, haha our "neighborhood" was flooded with pain killers around 2008-2014ish, literally had thousands on hand at all times, and my friend and I would chew 10 percs before breakfast sometimes, usually 5 on average at a time. However, the next day you might take 5 throughout the whole day. When you build up a tolerance, you'd be shocked how much you can take and stay standing, even functioning.
@@makeapathpresents yep. Look at all those super high tolerance functioning people in Kensington! Hahahahaha
he needs to read Matthew Perry's book he knew how much he took on any given day
I’d pay to hear Matts opinion about this opiate addiction that costed $10M
Sop much ? 50 grand a week right lmao
He was embezzling the money and saying it was for his addiction. He’s trying to justify the amount of money going out
He wasn’t taking 1500mg a day and working. Ain’t no way
Probably why he kept an odd schedule. Up all night and then slept later in the day.
I agree. There had to be other drugs involved for the amount of money he spent.
Ain't no mf way okay🤣🥱💊🤕🤡
He was definitely taking uppers to be a functioning addict.
Why is the phenomenon of tolerance, so difficult to grasp?
His wife never checked his pockets
It's sad hearing this as an opiate addict.
Harpoolitan wants to crawl under the table and hide
Hopefully, Jim Griffin will follow Harpootlian.
Is that like a pocket full of sunshine?
It is not safe to take more than 288mg per day, it can cause respiratory arrest. How is he still alive??
He started off taking one pill. Then over a long period of time gradually upped his dosage to taking the amount he was taking. Obviously if a regular person took a handful right from the start, it’s not safe. But slowly raising the dose is completely normal
I’m 24 and really skinny and take 500-900mg a day it’s really not
@@Rajonrondoo99 he's twice your age and he claims he took 2-3 times what you did everyday. Nope
His drug addiction is crazy
He’d be dead taking all those pills cmon. Absolute compulsive liar
as a former addict, 100 pills a day is an average day
How though? Last I was into drugs it cost like 20$ for a 30mg OxyContin pill. So to take 100 a day would cost 2,000$. How could anyone afford that?
@@corymccollett1427 well obviously a normal person can’t…that’s why they resort to stealing. That’s when it goes dienhill
@@corymccollett1427 ten pills a day is quite a bit. I assume he meant 10, and not 100. 100 would be a definite overdose.
You've taken 2000mg of oxy in one day?
@ernieh3860 that is substantial.
I am surprised he is living taking all the drugs
The way is explaining things sounds pretty honest I had I son that hooked on pills after being in the hospital for 4 months and after 2 years the amount of pills he could tolerate was crazy and the amount of money was even crazier when someone addict to pills just to be normal you have to take more and more
@@OpinionatedOG184 clearly you haven’t seen a loved one go through addiction and how heartbreaking it is to watch them. So why don’t you stfu.
@@OpinionatedOG184 lol you’re a funny dude. Bless your heart too fam , you are absolutely clueless about addiction
@@OpinionatedOG184 this is exactly how a family member described addiction after a few years. They don’t take it for the “high” after an amount of time. They take it just to feel normal and not be sick. Inform yourself. However, I do believe he is guilty.
Every lame distraction rather than: you better get out there to find my family's killer.
The DA just let him gain a ton of sympathy from the jury. Wow,,, He's is a weak prosecutor.
As someone that has been there he is at least telling the truth about his addiction this is a 100 percent accounting of a opiate addiction
He DID NOT take 2,000+ mgs of perc 30s a day.... If you believe that then you've never experienced opiate addiction... That amount would kill any human. That's total BULLSH*T!!
@@sandcastle1417 oh and you think there is a set amount of drugs anyone person can take. And I said he is definitely a addict I dk about the amount but the amounts of drugs I've seen people take of all types of drugs I've stopped doubting them. You think addicts are reading waring labels . I've taken 30 Vicodin 7.5s in 1 day on top of coke, weed and beer
@@sandcastle1417 oh and you think there is a set amount of drugs anyone person can take. And I said he is definitely a addict I dk about the amount but the amounts of drugs I've seen people take of all types of drugs I've stopped doubting them. You think addicts are reading waring labels . I've taken 30 Vicodin 7.5s in 1 day on top of coke, weed and beer
The amount he is talking about? He would not be able to take a crap
@@dagmastr12 when he referred to diarrhea, he was saying he experienced that at a time of withdrawal
Let's administer a fair share of the sentence to those medical priests who claimed this psychopharmacology to be safe!
Prosecution is pathetic. This is all circumstantial. Jurors are probably napping about now.
Unbelievable amount of drugs. I was taking 40 mgs of oxytocin and was zoned.
2000mg of oxy a day? 🤣🤣🤣
I would hate to have him represent me. If he can't articulate his own experiences, how the heck would he speak on behalf of his clients!!!!!
He killed his wife and son
Lol now he's trying to say the data is inaccurate
If he was taking so many pills, when he went to jail did anyone witness him going through withdrawals?
"I was on peals"
Guilty.
With all that money, why didn't he go into a rehab program?
If he was doing 2000 mgs a day on oxy he would be detoxing but yet shows know sign of it????? Makes no sense. I think he tried using that to get away with it
He takes such pride talking about his addiction to oxy…
Bubba, paw paw, mags, Grady. Terms of endearment.
He admitted he did it , listen carefully when he is describing his timeline about going to the kennel. He said" I went back to the kennel and did what I did
Johnny Depp has nothing on Ole Alex