Richard Taite – A celebrity addiction and recovery expert – says it’s a good thing Whitney Purvis is behind bars, because she’s accused of doing some pretty bad shit… allegedly dealing drugs that killed a man.
As TMZ first reported … Purvis — who starred on the reality show “16 and Pregnant” — was arrested Monday on involuntary homicide and drug offenses in connection with the fentanyl death of John Mark Harris in Floyd County, Georgia.
She was slapped with a manslaughter charge for intentionally distributing the drug Tranq—a combination of fentanyl—an opioid—and xylazine—a horse tranquilizer. To make matters worse for Purvis, the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration is now investigating.
According to Taite… the most shocking part of this story is that Purvis is the alleged drug dealer – rather than the typical celebrity victim, as in the cases of Matthew Perry , Prince and Michael Jackson .
RT points out that if you’re dealing in fentanyl and someone dies, you’ll go to prison forever – no matter how famous the dealer is.
TAITE—the founder of Cliffside Malibu Celebrity Rehabilitation Center and current CEO of Carrara Treatment Wellness and Spa —also warns that TRANQ users cannot be saved by Narcan, the medication that immediately reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. RT adds that Tranq is currently considered the worst drug on the street because users inject it into open wounds, turning them into zombies.
RT says what’s even worse is having to bury her own son, which Whitney was forced to do after her son, Weston Jr. , was found dead in his bed last month. Taite continues to criticize Purvis for allegedly killing Harris with a dose of fentanyl after losing her son, saying she has no right to take the life of another person’s child.
Taite closes by saying that we are in a time where Fentanyl is killing everyone… When he was young, it was a rite of passage to try drugs… but kids these days aren’t – because so many are dying.
