article_snippet.sent: Mitchell, who suffered from polio as a child, remains in the hospital, but is said to be in 'good spirits.'
article_snippet.sent: Joni Mitchell (above) went on to say; 'Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm ...  
article_snippet.sent: Mitchell admitted to briefly having problems with addiction in a Reader's Digest interview, saying; 'I didn’t get involved for years, and then I went on Rolling Thunder and they asked me how I wanted to be paid, and I ran away to join the circus: Clowns used to get paid in wine – pay me in cocaine because everybody was strung out on cocaine.'
article_snippet.sent: A 2012 paper published in a peer-reviewed medical journal found that half of the 115 subjects tested positive for a prescription or illicit drug, among a prescription or illicit drug; amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cannabinoids, and even cocaine.
highlights_snippet.sent: Joni Mitchell was hospitalized on Tuesday after being found unconscious in Joni Mitchell California home .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Mitchell, who has been a heavy smoker since Joni Mitchell was 9-years-old and had polio as a child, has admitted Joni Mitchell dealt with cocaine addiction in the 70s .
  