Just as we suspected, the toxicology results now prove that Heath Ledger's death was an accidental overdose of prescription medicine. We hope all those journalists who profited off reporting he had various illegal substance addictions and supposed-friends who said drugs broke up his marriage eat crow. Bastards.
Heath Ledger's death on Jan. 22 was due to an accidental mixture of prescription drugs, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner for the City of New York has concluded. "Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine," said an announcement released Wednesday morning by office spokesperson Ellen Borakove. Oxycodone is a pain medication, hydrocodone is a cough suppressant, diazepam is commonly called Valium, temazepam treats anxiety or sleeplessness, alprazolam is known as Xanax, and doxylamine is a sedating antihistamine. "We have concluded that the manner of death is accident, resulting from the abuse of prescription medications," the two-paragraph statement said in its entirety.
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Sad, sad, sad. He didn't want to die, it was a fricking ACCIDENT. Just awful. His poor daughter...
i think when you're popping Xanax, Valium and 5 other major anxiety and sleeping medications, you are an addict and are almost certain to be further self-medicating on the side. it is sad nontheless. i think wanting to die is even sadder 'cause your mind is tormented by the constast regrets, thoughts, etc...
johnny
i think it's sad, yeah...but c'mon--all those meds? he had to have known he was taking chances with his own life. and that's reckless.
i dunno. i think mistakes happen. i'm convinced his insomnia led to frequent pill use -- which can happen to almost anyone. not sleeping makes you completely irrational, not to mention forgetful. couple that with the bad case of pneumonia he had, and the prescriptions his doctors/pharmacists should have warned him not to combine... and tragedies like this happen.
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