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IN PASSING

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade but when you are found dead with a wide variety of drugs in your body, drugs that should not be there together or perhaps not be there at all, it is not 'accidental death'.

It may be that the user did not intend to die. But it was not accidental.

Some paper, the LATimes I think, did actually use the quote from Heath Ledger's autopsy that used the term 'drug abuse'.

Which is suicide in slow motion.

Anyone knows that these drugs are potentially killers.

The great untold story today is about prescription drug addiction.

Of course, big Pharma does not want us to think about that.

I know.

Ledger took the pills. They didn't ram them down his throat.

But some doctor somewhere did not ask Heath to bring in all his pills so they could see what he was taking before they prescribed another one.

But then, if addicted, he would lie.

I am just speculating.

But I think that in respect to his family and his memory, the facts have been finessed.

The actor Heath Ledger died accidentally “from the abuse of prescription medications” — specifically, six kinds of painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety drugs — a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner said on Wednesday.

(snip)

Among the drugs found in Mr. Ledger’s system were two widely prescribed narcotics: oxycodone, the main ingredient in the prescription drug OxyContin, and hydrocodone, the principal pain reliever in the prescription drug Vicodin.

Also in Mr. Ledger’s system were three anti-anxiety medications: diazepam, the generic name for Valium; alprazolam, commonly known as Xanax; and temazepam, which is sold under the brand name Restoril and is often prescribed as a sleep medication.

The drug doxylamine was also found in his system. It is an ingredient in some over-the-counter sleeping pills, and is also marketed in some nonprescription cold medicines that contain decongestants.

There is no question that it is all a tragedy.

But it ain't because someone was just walking down the road and got hit by an asteroid or something.

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