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| | | | Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drugs, the New York City medical examiner said Wednesday.
The cause of death was "acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine," spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said in a statement.
The drugs are the generic names for the painkiller OxyContin, the anti-anxiety drugs Valium and Xanax, and the sleep aids Restoril and Unisom. Hydrocodone is a prescription painkiller.
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so heath ledger (a healthy 28 year old guy) goes into a dr's office and walks out with prescriptions for all these different pills.....
what the hell is going on....
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| I was sick over the holidays. I had to go to several different doctors and the hospital in a matter of days (sometimes hours). I had several prescriptions filled for Me during that time. When I looked at them, I was given 2 scripts for Vicodin; 2 for Oxycontin; 1 for Xanax; 1 for another generic pill to sedate Me; and 2 different antibiotics. My insurance company never blinked an eye, even though there were
at least 3 different doctors prescribing the meds in a matter of days-- My family just had them filled because some were generic
versions and some brand. Thank God I know the generic/brand differences.
On a side note, My same insurance company denied coverage for a standard and non-narcotic med I have taken for 10 years
because I was three days early for the refill-- incidentally, I was leaving on vacation when that refill was made. *L*
I would love to know the rhyme to the reason....Unless you know drug interactions it's hard to know what is safe to combine
and what isn't. I do believe he must have taken more than suggested, but also a horrible combination as well.
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| | | | If you know who and how to ask, you can get whatever you want...and that's just normal people..
In hollywood you can get whatever you want handed to you on a silver platter.
Heath had a known drug problem for years...
He also had pneumonia...so i guess if he got all these drugs (i noticed there is an antibiotic mentioned in the cocktail he died on) and added them to drugs he was already taking for anxiety/depression, as well as his body not being 100% due to his being ill....
Makes for a pretty lethal combination...
But seriously... who in their right mind takes all those different meds together?
i take Xanax regularly, and i stop and think before i take even 1 nurofen plus for a headache, you know?
oh well, it happened... that's how it happened... hopefully he can rest in peace now.
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| | | | at this point I dont know what the difference is between the drug dealer on the street selling whatever drugs someone asks for to em, and a doctor prescribing this crap willy nilly to whoever comes in and asks for it..
I dont know what the answer is
but I do know when an obviously healthy 28 year old guy walks into a dr's office or several dr's offices and ends up with all these pills in his pocket there is a definite failure of the laws in place designed to regulate prescription drugs in this country...
the ultimate responsibility indeed rests with the guy that went in asking for, getting and then taking the pills....
but if this is the effectiveness of the prescription drug regulation laws and system in america
then that system is useless and a waste of time, energy, and money....
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| | | | Barry I think that you will agree its a crooked, money making system we live in....
It is a sad system because when I was sick with endometriosis and needed my Lupron shots I was allowed 2 a year because one shot cost 1800 dollars. But when I want Vicodin for pain I was able to get 90 a month.. FOR FREAKING CRAMPS????? WTF?? But my insurance company was fast to allow me to have the 10,000 surgery I needed as well...WOW lets go figure....
Somehow and somewhere the system is not communicating with the right doctors and just allowing anyone and everyone to get the medications they want.....Its sad that doctors will not check a simple system that most drug stores use to monitor when prescriptions are being refilled either to early or refilled at another location for an illegal narcotic.
~ shakes head~
Good question hon..to bad there is no easy answer...
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