the examiner's findings are in. . .Heath Ledger's death is ruled. . .

[rjmacs]

[quote bazookaman]how do you "accidentally" take oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine?
You don't "accidentally" take them all. You "accidentally" die as a result.

[Gutenberg]

I wonder how many of those were street and how many prescribed. He may also have gotten prescriptions in Australia and his US doctors would not have known about them.

[Buzz]

[quote Jimmypoo]
Generally speaking, there's NO reason to take hydrocodone if you've made the move up/over to oxy. Either might make you sleepy, but not for long. After a few days, that's gone, unless they were crushed.
Since you did say "generally speaking...", you can sorta slide, but there are circumstances where taking both is indicated, especially if the patient suffers from chronic pain, and uses hydrocodone for regular pain management, and then suffers some additional injury that requires a boost in the meds, w/ oxy, to control. Also if the patient suffers from different types and sources of acute and/or chronic pain, both may be proper treatment... as to how Heath ended up w/ such a potent cocktail, or what the indications were for concocting and taking it, that's the story that needs to be uncovered.

The other comments in the thread as to the med establishment are spot on; our kid went to a new specialist a month ago, and Mrs. Buzz filled out the history and noted his allergy to sulfa based drugs, and verbally told the doc during the exam... doc prescribes 3 meds, and thankfully the pharmacy realized one was sulfa based, and put the kibosh on filling the Rx. I bet famous actors have the same problem w/ the system...

[Harbourmaster]

Heath Ledger's death is ruled. . . FINAL!

[guitarist]

" the MISSING LINK to the full story. . ."

At what point was the link "missing"?

[NewtonMP2100]

. . .lost in the snow storm. . .

[N-OS X-tasy!]

The public fascination surrounding this man's death baffles me. He OD'd -- makes him a dumbass in my book.