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