"I'm shocked! Just shocked!"
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"I'm shocked! Just shocked!"
Wow, that's some potent stuff he was on. I imagine Heath was doing a bit of doctor shopping (or got them illegally) to get all those. Tragic what stardom does to many people.
by the combined effects of:
oxycodone
hydrocodone
diazepam
temazepam
alprazolam
and
doxylamine
And that was just for BREAKFAST!
Yikes. That is a lot of meds he was taking. All of these could NOT have been perscribed by the same doctor, knowing the lethal combination.
How tragic for his baby girl. :^(
If he had prescriptions for all of these and was not simply purchasing them on the street or getting them from a friend, then presumably a prescribing MD told him about interactions to be concerned about. It may have gone in one ear and out the other. It astonishes me to see the things that people who are competent actors and actresses can do on the screen (to the non-thespian, it seems difficult, would require some uncommon kind of intelligence) and then the incredibly stupid things they do (instant case) or say (e.g., Sean Penn). Anyhow, I think this one deserves an asterisk for stretching the bounds of the definition of “accidental” death.
I admire Heath's body of work very much and he sounds like a cool down to earth guy, however I think the other tragedy is the protecting of how he died and what sort of behavior and outlook/rational led up to it as if it is sacrilege.
He may have been a brilliant actor, but not much on the common sense side. Any person whose mother of his child threatens that he can not see his beloved child when he is using drugs, that continues to whine about it as he continues to use drugs is a drug addict. No two ways around it.
Heath Ledger was a drug addict and paid for it with his life as many drug addicts and alcoholics do. That is the lesson here. The lesson is that you can and may very well die young if you continue to use drugs improperly no matter what your station in life.
My prayers go out to his daughter, the mother of his child and his family. They are the victims here. They had no control over what he put in his body and had no choice in it proceeding his death. I wish he could have taken the help offered to him earlier seriously.
Sounds like a combo for someone that fell down an elevator shaft, off a high rise, or fell out the door on the interstate.
Ummm, hydrocodone is better known as "Vicodin" and is for a lot more than just coughs, while Oxycodone is Oxycontin (and in Percocet). Pretty powerful mix.
-Eric
WOW, that’s one heck of a medicine cabinet for treating a cold.
I usually take a couple of advils and grind it out.
Um, I’m pretty sure hydrocodone is a painkiller (it’s been prescribed to me as such). Anyways, I believe it could have been an accident - I had a friend who was on meds for ADHD, depression, OCD, and allergies when she hurt herself and the ER doctor prescribed her a prescription painkiller, and the painkiller made her loopy/tired enough that she accidentally mixed up two of the meds and almost died as a result (thankfully she’s OK now and off everything except the allergy meds). Plus, hydrocodone combined with anything that has a side effect of making you sleepy can screw with your mind in very weird ways.
If there were so damn many things wrong with him that he needed so many different drugs, maybe he should have been in a hospital or in a psych ward! Accidental overdose? C’mon, tell it like it actually is, for once!