Rick Ross Opens up About Past<br />Drug Use and Hospitalization.<br />43-year-old rapper Rick Ross recently came clean<br />to ‘People’ about his hospitalization in March 2018. .<br />Ross admitted that his seizure was largely caused by his<br />abuse of the prescription cough syrup known as codeine. .<br />It was the codeine…that mixed with the things<br />I was drinking, the other drugs I was doing,<br />and on top of not resting…[I don’t think] one<br />particular thing would have killed me.<br />But everything combined?, Rick Ross, via ‘People’.<br />For Ross, the incident was life-changing and<br />pushed him to take a new perspective on life.<br />When I woke up in the hospital and I had so<br />many people around me, so many homies, it<br />felt like I was in V.I.P…But it was more like<br />‘D---, we gotta do some special things.', Rick Ross, via ‘People’.<br />Now, Ross is focused on a<br />healthier lifestyle and has gone<br />a year without abusing codeine. .<br />I cut the sodas out and I drink a lot more<br />water. That, adding in some vegetables and<br />I get a lot more rest…I’m just living and being<br />much more genuine, Rick Ross, via ‘People’
