Posted on 02/06/2008 12:09:42 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
The lethal cocktail of drugs that killed actor Heath Ledger two weeks ago could be sitting in your medicine cabinet.
The medications — identified Wednesday as oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, alprazolam, temazepam and doxylamine — are the generic names for the painkillers OxyContin and Vicodin, the anti-anxiety drugs Valium and Xanax and the sleep aids Restoril and Unisom.
Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner, who conducted the autopsy, said Wednesday that the cumulative effects of these combined prescription medications killed the 28-year-old Australian-born actor.
"The danger is that all these drugs have similar side effects and they tend to add up," said Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing editor of health for FOXNews.com.
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The drain cleaner in the cabinet under your sink can kill you too if you are foolish enough to drink it.
Stupidity is in some households too.....
Stupidity is in some households too.....
You got that right!
Oh I wish! :-)
But you know, if you don't take them all at the same time, your stash lasts longer.
Nope, we don’t have a single one of those. Of course, Tylenol could kill us if we swallow the whole bottle. Iron-fortified multivitamins could kill us. Falling down the stairs could kill us ...
If you’re taking all six of those drugs in a very short time frame, I’m not real sure we should be calling your overdose death “accidental.”
}:-)4
Here are some of its side effects. Scary stuff!
Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns...
No, they couldn’t.
Is there no one left in this country who is not getting through a day without anti-depressants? Doctors seem to hand this crap out like candy.
OMG I COULD DIE JUST LIKE HEATH DID!!!!!!!!
IF I TAKE A TON OF COCAINE AND ALCOHOL AND ALL THESE DRUGS I COULD END UP DEAD!!!! OMG!
AT LEAST GLOBAL WARMING WON’T GET ME!!! OR THE EVIL REPUBLICANS!!! /end hysterical idiot rant
You are doomed. DOOMED!
I just checked.
Nope, no drug called Gross Stupidity is in my house.
oxycodone, Check
hydrocodone, Check
diazepam, Check
alprazolam, You’re kidding right?
temazepam, Sure...why not?
adoxylamine, Get out of here....
“The drugs Heath Ledger used to kill himself”
Nope, none of them are in my home. And if they were, I can pretty well assure you that I would not guzzle them by the fistful. Never been that pampered. Never been that narcisistic. Never been that selfish. Never been quite that stupid, thank you. Ofcourse, I’m also the kind of guy that would have had the decency and decorum to marry my daughter’s mother (maybe even before I got her pregnant). But, just call me old-fashioned.
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