Johnny Cash, Kurt Cobain, and Tammy Wynette had also struggled with obstinate constipation, and he was convinced that they too had stretches of paralysed colon. But these were also people who struggled with obstinate drug addictions. Opiates, whether they’re in the form of heroin or prescription painkillers, drastically slow colon motility (as do, by varying degrees, anti-depressants and other psychiatric drugs).
