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Autopsy: Billy Mays Used Cocaine Days Before His Death
ABC News ^ | August 7, 2009 | Dan harris

Posted on 08/07/2009 3:37:50 PM PDT by AZLiberty

Cocaine was a contributing factor to the death by heart disease of TV pitchman Billy Mays, according to a toxicology report released today by the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's office. For More Coverage, Visit ABC News Affiliate WFTS in Tampa, Fla. The report concluded that the 50-year-old had used cocaine a few days before his death. Test results also discovered traces of the narcotic painkillers Oxycodone, hydrocodone and tramadol in his bloodstream.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: billymays; cocaine; death; drugs
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Like I said in a past comment, 50 is the new 27. Funny thing is, it's the same generation, again dying of drugs.
1 posted on 08/07/2009 3:37:50 PM PDT by AZLiberty
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To: AZLiberty

No one could really express surprise, but I think this case should be closed with our prayers to his family and loved ones.


2 posted on 08/07/2009 3:39:55 PM PDT by SRJeff (Singing oldies, goldies - bee bop a lula baby what I say)
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And yet we don’t know when the last time Barack Obama used cocaine was.

He said he gave up smoking but admittedly is still smoking and reportedly is smoking several PACKS a day.


3 posted on 08/07/2009 3:41:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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Cocain is a shock but the painkillers aren’t. I do believe that he was going to have a hip replacement.


4 posted on 08/07/2009 3:41:56 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: AZLiberty

Back in the olden days before radio, movies and television, most ordinary American families used to be very prejudiced against “show folk”, or anyone from vaudeville or circuses, even legitimate theater, warning their sons and daughters to stay away from them. I guess some things never change.

The entry of media into our homes and cars has had a very deleterious effect — putting all these types of people into our lives day in and day out, and that’s not even counting the insidious commies like Cronkite and Bill Moyers. Even someone like Billy Mays, who looked like such a nice guy, was affected by the money and the circles he ran in. And Michael Jackson, putting himself under anaesthesia to go to sleep? Can’t find an adequate word for that.


5 posted on 08/07/2009 3:45:47 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Media: quit making things up." --Sarah Palin)
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I'm 51 and in good shape. I would never go near cocaine. Caffeine (4 cups) overdoses almost scares me to death. I climb the walls waiting it to end.
6 posted on 08/07/2009 3:47:23 PM PDT by dancusa (The word "racist" is a magic shield word that's supposed to stop any dissent.)
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To: AZLiberty

Kind of shoots down any chance of a lawsuit against the airline.


7 posted on 08/07/2009 3:47:31 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: AZLiberty

Which reminds me.... Have they Buried Jackson yet?


8 posted on 08/07/2009 3:47:53 PM PDT by theDentist (qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: AZLiberty

No wonder he was so hyped-up.


9 posted on 08/07/2009 3:48:57 PM PDT by smokingfrog (No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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Yeah, they decided today to bury him at Forest Lawn.


10 posted on 08/07/2009 3:49:12 PM PDT by mockingbyrd (Boehner Baby!!!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Hopefully Obama is smoking 4 packs of cigarettes a day. What a POS.

Billy Mays looks like he liked the drugs. Shame it wasn’t the sham wow guy.


11 posted on 08/07/2009 3:50:18 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs - American Hero! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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I don't know about cocaine, but Mays sure sounded like he was hopped up on something before getting in front of the camera to make his pitches.
12 posted on 08/07/2009 3:50:35 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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There is some suspicion that Bill Clinton wouldn’t release his medical records because of a possible past cocaine induced heart attack.


13 posted on 08/07/2009 3:50:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Frantzie

The comment I heard about Obama smoking “packs” of cigarettes a day came from the author who just put out a book about the Secret Service agents.

And he says that Barack (as GW Bush before him) treats the agents well.


14 posted on 08/07/2009 3:52:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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BM was on the dope???

I guess household products are gateway drugs.

Be a slob and live forever.

Like me.


15 posted on 08/07/2009 3:58:30 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("The first white president : "I cannot tell a lie." The first black president: "Yes I can.")
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Oh, another Coke head. In other words, a SHAM. WOW!


16 posted on 08/07/2009 4:04:12 PM PDT by miele man
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To: AZLiberty

He should have taken that coctail years ago and we wouldn’t be forced to subjected to that screamning bearded bastard!


17 posted on 08/07/2009 4:06:30 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: theDentist

I thought they were going to perform a third autopsy on MJ??


18 posted on 08/07/2009 4:07:45 PM PDT by CedarDave (Obama's poll numbers decrease and stock market values increase. Just coincidence?? Hmmm.)
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To: AZLiberty

and wait... there’s more!


19 posted on 08/07/2009 4:08:05 PM PDT by sten
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Cocain is a shock but the painkillers aren’t. I do believe that he was going to have a hip replacement.

It would have been his third hip operation. He must have had his blood pressure checked for the surgeries so I doubt that caused the enlarged heart. The cocaine explains it.

20 posted on 08/07/2009 4:14:57 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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