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. . .an accident. . .prescription drug overdose. . .
Heath Ledger’s Death Is Ruled an Accident
. . .The New York City chief medical examiner’s office has ruled that the actor Heath Ledger, whose body was found in a SoHo apartment on Jan. 22, died of an accidental overdose of prescription medications that included painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety drugs.
“Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine,” . . .
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yeesh!
how do you "accidentally" take oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine?
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Well, probably after you start with one, then two, the rest just keep coming.
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in the dark? Just like that guy who thought the M-80 was a Prep H suppository in the dark. Although why he lit it, THAT one nobody has ever explained, and after 20 years, he's still quiet.
btw........ What pain was he taking the first two for, and how much anxiety did he have to require two benzo anxiolytics, one benzo amnesiac, and an H-antag, just to SLEEP?
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.
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He crossed the Dark Knight, big mistake.
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It can start with 'real' pain.
I've seen some of those meds ruin the lives of some very intelligent person(s).
Some people can take them and stay in control.
Some can not.
I don't think there is any absolutely positive way to identify those that can and those that can't pre-med., until they are not doing the thinking any more.
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And, did his doctors tell him not to take all of these at one time? I'm not blaming the docs, as ultimately one is in charge of their own body and an adult should know better, but... There is a *huge* deficiency in our med establishment with regard to prescribing multiple medications and not warning about interactions. I have some first hand knowledge of this.
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[quote mrbigstuff]And, did his doctors tell him not to take all of these at one time? I'm not blaming the docs, as ultimately one is in charge of their own body and an adult should know better, but... There is a *huge* deficiency in our med establishment with regard to prescribing multiple medications and not warning about interactions. I have some first hand knowledge of this.
You're kidding, right?
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can happen, as Mr big notes. My lovely wife is on a variety of pain and neurological meds for her spinal problems. She's had two bad drug interactions last year that required ER visits. One that required a four day hospital stay.
And what's annoying is that she is VERY good about communicating all her meds to every healthcare provider she talks to. We've taken the step of checking interactions online every time she gets a new prescription. Then I try to decode the medspeak, and we ask semi-intelligent questions. Even then, we were not able to predict those two interactions until after they happened, because the data on the interactions was hidden deep, deep down inside obscure medical reports only available in for pay online journals (I guessed from abstracts).
Docs are too rushed to do any sort of research, despite what those TV doctors seem to be able to do. Often they just prescribe what pops into their minds first. And pharma goes to great pains to hide possible interactions in order to preserve their profits.
For me, I try really hard to stick with aspirin or nothing.
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[quote papercup][quote mrbigstuff]And, did his doctors tell him not to take all of these at one time? I'm not blaming the docs, as ultimately one is in charge of their own body and an adult should know better, but... There is a *huge* deficiency in our med establishment with regard to prescribing multiple medications and not warning about interactions. I have some first hand knowledge of this.
You're kidding, right?
No, he is not. I have also had first, second and third hand experiences of that "deficiency". And that is without even going into what I have heard about through a sister working for the FDA and relatives working as RN's and LPN's.
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