Heath Ledger's death ruled "Accidental Overdose"..

[Barfight]

I guess this is where I make a public retraction. Piss.

[DrumAndDestroy]

i give you the colbert wag of the finger...

[BDR]

The AP report:

New York City medical examiner rules Heath Ledger died of accidental pill overdose

By AMY WESTFELDT
Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drugs, the New York City medical examiner said Wednesday.

The cause of death was “acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine,” spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said in a statement.

The drugs are the generic names for the painkiller OxyContin, the anti-anxiety drugs Valium and Xanax, and the sleep aids Restoril and Unisom. Hydrocodone is a widely used prescription painkiller.

Borakove wouldn’t say what concentrations of each drug were found in Ledger’s blood, or whether one drug played a greater part than another in causing his death.

“What you’re looking at here is the cumulative effects of these medications together,” she said.

The ruling comes two weeks after the 28-year-old Australian-born actor was found dead in the bed of his rented SoHo apartment. Police found bottles of six types of prescription drugs in his bedroom and bathroom.

Ledger’s family returned to the actor’s hometown of Perth, Australia, on Tuesday to prepare for his funeral. Arrangements were private.

In a statement released through Ledger’s publicist, the actor’s father, Kim, said Wednesday: “While no medications were taken in excess, we learned today the combination of doctor-prescribed drugs proved lethal for our boy. Heath’s accidental death serves as a caution to the hidden dangers of combining prescription medication, even at low dosage.”

Heath Ledger was discovered by his masseuse Jan. 22 after she arrived for an appointment that afternoon. She entered his bedroom to set up for the massage and found him unresponsive, and proceeded to call Mary-Kate Olsen three times over the next 9 minutes before dialing 911. Ledger had been dead for some time, and police say no foul play occurred.

Ledger, nominated for an Oscar for his role in “Brokeback Mountain,” had returned to New York from London, where he had been filming a $30 million Terry Gilliam film, days before his death. He said in a November interview that his most recent completed roles in the Batman movie “The Dark Knight” and Bob Dylan biopic “I’m Not There” had taken a toll, saying he couldn’t sleep.

“Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night,” Ledger told The New York Times. “I couldn’t stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.” He said he had taken two Ambien pills, which only gave him an hour of sleep.

I'd hate to be the doc who wrote these 'scripts. RIP, Heath.

r:>)

[DirtySanchez]

Today I will answer all threads with a song:

"Whoops, I OD'd"

Whoops I OD'd,
Shortness of breath.
Call ambulance,
Tell my wife I {love her}.
Error in judgement cut my life,
No second chance, no guiding light.

I never meant to cause you pain,
I never thought I'd be the one who took the fall.
I got lost in the moment,
Assholes like to test the limit.

Six minutes down,
Breathing machine,
Brain not feel right.
The look on you is killing me,
Drowning in shame but don't feel bad.
Cause I never feared consequences.
Hate regrets more than apologies.

A year has passed, like photographs.
My life is just a scrapbook,
Of old friends and faded memories.
Looks like I pulled the rug from under myself.
The fall's too much for me to recover from.

It's been real fun but now I must say goodbye.
I'll see you all at Okie Dogs,
I'll see you all at Okie Dogs.

Something to think about; Aren't most OD's accidental?
If not its suicide. AMIRITE?

[DirtySanchez]

Plus, if you think this dude wasn't taking this shit to get high you're very naive.

Oxycodone= Percocet or Oxycontin
Hydrocodone=Vicodin or Lortab
Benzodiazapam=Xanax or valium

on top of sleeping pills?

Sounds like a recipe for death to me.


Directions: Crush pills after removing pesky coating.
Mix well. Form into lines about 1/4 inch wide by 3 inches long
with credit card or drivers license. Roll up twenty dollar bill (ones are too dirty, they have been in cheap strippers cracks you know.)
Snort away.

Wake up dead.

[EyesOfAnguishbassist]

Plus, if you think this dude wasn't taking this shit to get high you're very naive.

Oxycodone= Percocet or Oxycontin
Hydrocodone=Vicodin or Lortab
Benzodiazapam=Xanax or valium

on top of sleeping pills?

Sounds like a recipe for death to me.


Directions: Crush pills after removing pesky coating.
Mix well. Form into lines about 1/4 inch wide by 3 inches long
with credit card or drivers license. Roll up twenty dollar bill (ones are too dirty, they have been in cheap strippers cracks you know.)
Snort away.

Wake up dead.

Seems you've done this before Dirty Sanchez...

[heyhey]

Wake up dead? Your to much!

[DirtySanchez]

Plus, if you think this dude wasn't taking this shit to get high you're very naive.

Oxycodone= Percocet or Oxycontin
Hydrocodone=Vicodin or Lortab
Benzodiazapam=Xanax or valium

on top of sleeping pills?

Sounds like a recipe for death to me.


Directions: Crush pills after removing pesky coating.
Mix well. Form into lines about 1/4 inch wide by 3 inches long
with credit card or drivers license. Roll up twenty dollar bill (ones are too dirty, they have been in cheap strippers cracks you know.)
Snort away.

Wake up dead.

Seems you've done this before Dirty Sanchez...

No, I hate xanax.

I believe you can only do this once though.
Sort of an unwritten rule.

[YankeeRose]

I definitely can believe it was an accident. Most people don't know that medications interact, or if they do realize something of the sort, it's not that they simply make you drowsy faster, they actually DOUBLE the effects of one another. Our resident RockPage Nurses or other Health Care Professionals, please correct if I'm wrong, but without looking it up, I do believe it's called synergy. Also, medications such as Ambien can many times cause the opposite effect, instead of making one sleepy, they make one wide awake. Ledger should have been under better medical supervision, not had physicians prescribing him meds on two different continents. The entire Ledger tragedy proves the world is FULL of eeediots!

[DirtySanchez]

I definitely can believe it was an accident. Most people don't know that medications interact, or if they do realize something of the sort, it's not that they simply make you drowsy faster, they actually DOUBLE the effects of one another. Our resident RockPage Nurses or other Health Care Professionals, please correct if I'm wrong, but without looking it up, I do believe it's called synergy. Also, medications such as Ambien can many times cause the opposite effect, instead of making one sleepy, they make one wide awake. Ledger should have been under better medical supervision, not had physicians prescribing him meds on two different continents. The entire Ledger tragedy proves the world is FULL of eeediots!

Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with most of this. 5th grade health class teaches you not to mix medications. Nowhere Have I ever read on any medicine bottle "Please snort through a rolled up twenty" either.

I do agree the world is full of idiots. however thats something even idiots will agree on.

The guy liked to party. He did too much. "Accidental" overdose covers that
nicely I think.

[YankeeRose]

Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with most of this. 5th grade health class teaches you not to mix medications. Nowhere Have I ever read on any medicine bottle "Please snort through a rolled up twenty" either.

I do agree the world is full of idiots. however thats something even idiots will agree on.

The guy liked to party. He did too much. "Accidental" overdose covers that nicely I think.

You wouldn't happen to read the tabloids or watch Sleeza and believe ALL those pathetic rumors would you??? No drug residue was found on the $20 bill, or dang it, was that report worded no illegal drug residue was found on it?

[DirtySanchez]

I still think it sucks either way. He was a good actor

[BDR]

I still think it sucks either way. He was a good actor

Whether he partied too much or not (which, c'mon, it's Hollywood) this is also my take, he was a good actor and it wasn't like he was one of those who was constantly in the headlines (Brit, Lindsay, Courtney) for being a perpetual retard.

My heart goes out to his family and especially that little girl who won't ever know her dad except for what she sees on the video rack.

r:>)

[DrumAndDestroy]

Whether he partied too much or not (which, c'mon, it's Hollywood) this is also my take, he was a good actor and it wasn't like he was one of those who was constantly in the headlines (Brit, Lindsay, Courtney) for being a perpetual retard.
r:>)

kinda makes me think of a denis leary bit where he wonders why talented people overdose and the ones you'd want to never would.

i think this is a big run-on sentence...

[songsmith]

Also, medications such as Ambien can many times cause the opposite effect, instead of making one sleepy, they make one wide awake. !

Yep, my wife used to work nights at Healthsouth, and they used Ambien to keep patients down at night (see, when you're in bed all day, it's surprisingly hard to sleep at night)... she said many times that Ambien has the opposite effect on elderly patients... they'd be bouncing off the walls at 3am. And if they had dementia, whoa, anything could happen. Just in the interest of disclosure, the doctors who prescribed the Ambien were not in attendance at 3am, so they didn't deal with it's effects.

It is a shame about Ledger, he was a pretty good actor. At least if I die of an overdose, the death certificate will say, "Smoke Inhalation."----->JMS

[DirtySanchez]

denis

what's on your mind?

[Team Transylvania]

Denis & Palls

[DrumAndDestroy]

denis

what's on your mind?

get yo minds outta the gutter. that's how ya spell his name. fags.

[DirtySanchez]

Denis & Palls

taint that the truth.

[DirtySanchez]

denis

what's on your mind?

fags.

Thought so.

If I got my mind out of the gutter, it would have nowhere to go.

[DrumAndDestroy]

what's on your mind?

fags.

Thought so.

If I got my mind out of the gutter, it would have nowhere to go...except for my favorite scenes from Brokeback Mountain.

[DirtySanchez]

shit!