Ledger -- who was found dead in his New York apartment two weeks ago -- died of acute intoxication, city authorities said, ruling the death an accident resulting from the abuse of prescription medications. (
Posted on 02/15/2008 10:25:01 AM PST by Cagey
And, when they mix it with booze..... Fred Thompson’s daughter died of an overdose of her psycho drugs.
I have a relative who has seizures, and they put her on a medication to stop them, and she gained weight and became sucidal, fortunately she survived, and now has lost the weight, and is stable, but still has the seizures.
Gee...who would guess that he had been on some kind of anti-depressant or ADD drugs??? /sarcasm alert!!
Ledger -- who was found dead in his New York apartment two weeks ago -- died of acute intoxication, city authorities said, ruling the death an accident resulting from the abuse of prescription medications. (
since the predictable media opinion pieces are coming, here we go with the reply...
1. You could get a simple license from the State for a nominal fee and only have to take a test that any idiot could pass. You’d only have to renew it every 10 years for 40 years and maybe retake the test if you move out of state.
2. You could kill and injure people with your gun while drunk and still have your lawyer get your gun back because you need it for work.
3. You’d have half the tax burden of the county and State dedicated to improving the shooting ranges and facilities. The public agrees this is never good enough to suit them and with all the gunowners from California moving in, the range capacity will never catch up. Lines at the range are always shown on TV with the newsies deploring the crowding.
4. You could carry in any State at any time because carry and possession of your gun is honored nationwide and is considered a basic American civil right.
5. You would see commercials on TV pushing the newest, latest guns which you could lease for just $25 per month subject to the fine print.
6. You could finance a fancier gun than you can really afford by taking a 5 year loan with approved credit.
7. You would have a gun safe built into every house. In the upscale houses you would have 3 gun safes. Inexpensive houses and mobile homes would just have a gunrack by the door.
8. You’d have gun storage lockers at the shopping mall in which to store your rifle while shopping. This in order to free your arms for packages. The convenience of the shopper is paramount.
9. You could buy ammunition at the 7-11.
Full-service station means they’ll reload your magazines for you.
10. The news would stop reporting gun accidents unless more than 10 children were killed at one time. Onesy-twosey would only be notable in small towns or if Princess Di’s bodyguard shot her while aiming at paparazzi.
11. If the price of ammunition rose 20% the Federal Government would release war reserves of ammo to bring the price back down to the consumer’s comfort level.
more here:
http://www.mcsm.org/guncars.html
You have to be sensible and work with your psychiatrist.
A family member who was depressed tried several SSRI’s and couldn’t take them because they gave her severe anxiety. She kept working with the Head doc and finally got on Wellbutrin which has done wonders for her without the anxiety. I mean, she is a different person. I really hope she can continue to take it.
But for the people... example, bipolar ... bipolars are really hard to work with because they love the highs. The meds settle them down and help with the lows but they miss the highs.
Never knew one who didn’t decide to go off the meds... sometimes learned their lesson and went back on.
Also it takes a long time to safely get off some of these meds. You don’t just stop taking them.
People really need to be sensible about their health but that’s like asking a depressed person to cheer up.
I read all Heath Ledger’s drugs were legal,too.
A free society will always have the problem of nut cases.
Some even run for office.
I’ve both been on medication and known people with serious emotional and psychiatric problems, and I have seen what properly prescribed and used medications can do, and I am not talking about anti-depressants.
Thanks for posting this update.
Here in Beverly Hills a few years back, idiots were putting their DOGS on Prozac. There was an Iside Edition, I think story on it called, “Pups On Prozac.”
It's the underlying illness that's the problem.
Maybe he just wasn’t “himself” when off the meds. Which is another way of saying when he truly was “himself” he should have been locked up. Ritalin? Probably anti-depressants
Maybe anti-psycotic drugs. Worked with a girl who went off her meds and started threatening everyone. She was fired. Good thing she didn’t come back to punish us.
In Illinois, only the criminals carry concealed.
graduate student in sociology
It's been a couple decades since my college days (where I never took a sociology class), but I bet my impression of the political mixture of that field hasn't changed. Are there any right wing sociology grad students?
“A lot of Death and Mayhem for two minutes.
Somebody want to explain to me again why teachers and/or students are not allow to carry concealed?”
Because here in The Peoples Republik of Illinois there are laws that protect us against gun owners and their evil CCW permits.
Hence, we have no gun crimes... /sarcasm
The brother of a friend of mine was paranoiac / schizophrenic and he hated to take his meds because it made him feel normal. He felt powerful when he was off but, he also talked to potted plants too. She had a hard time keeping him in an apartment because of him off his meds. It was very sad.
They now have injectable, time released meds that last for 28 days. We see the same problems. Folks who feel better off their meds when they’re Jesus and can fly.
Are they putting her on another medication? Seizures are very dangerous and can either cause permanent brain damage or death.
I hope she finds a medication that will help control the seizures and make her feel okay.
That’s my big complaint about our neurologist. He said that the anti-seizure medication he prescribed our daughter didn’t have many side effects. She started acting strange after her seizure, and I wasn’t sure if she had more brain damage or it was the meds. I did a lot of research and found lots of people with similar side effects as my daughter.
I think doctors need to be up front about what negative side effects to be looking for.
They now have injectable, time released meds that last for 28 days. We see the same problems. Folks who feel better off their meds when they’re Jesus and can fly.
Exactly.
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