Feb 6 2008Heath Ledger's death ruled accidental

R.I.P

Too bad.
Tough lesson to learn I guess, but if you play with fire you'll get burned.

What a fucking waste.

well that's ironic... he's gonna sleep forever now

RIP

let's put a smile on that face

mamas don't let your babies grow up to play wth multiple sleeping pill prescriptions....and ride in old trucks.

Sorry and all, but other than for legal purposes, what's the difference between an "accidental" OD and the regular kind? Except that the accidental kind is even dumber. I guess we need this kind of thing every now and then to show us, in no uncertain terms, that famous, wealthy, good-looking people are just as fucked up and stupid as the rest of us.

Bye, hot Australian guy.

Who cares? Big deal? Amazing.., I found brintey spears had a personal account on M e e t R i ch. c o m. It is a site for celebrities and millionaires to mingle. It's said Charlie Sheen has found his love there last May.

That's a lot of drugs. And they haven't buried the stiff yet? Hasn't Heath been dead for two weeks? Poor junky.

I think it's in poor taste that CelebrityMillionaire.com is still running Ledger's profile.

I am just a bit curious...His profile was found on millionaire dating site 'BillionaireCupid.com' last week. Maybe the webmaster should remove it.

What's even more fucked up is someone paying you trolls to post gay links to worthless sites none of us will ever visit. OOHHH, it has the word millionaire in the URL maybe I can find me a rich spouse. Go away you fucktards so we can make fun of rich people.

How do you accidentally pop ALL those pills at once? How do they really know if it was "accidental" or just suicide? He's a known drug addict and we know he OD'd on drugs. I just don't get how that's accidental.

He played russian roulette with his body, and he lost. Stupidity is CAUSE of death in any regards. Dumbass. Had everything and literally BLEW it away.

That is so sad...and totally could have been prevented. Tragic. By the way, stop posting stupid dating site ads and trying to act like you're actually commenting on the story, it's obnoxious. RIP Heath

I wonder if him and Anna Nicole are having a party right now.

To D. Richards (Spam Magnet) - I'd like to say that Heath's death will be a warning to those so injudiciously getting high but judgement is one of the first things to go with those guys. And even if he'd been on SnakeOilSalesman.com a month ago, I wouldn't have visited their site.

The guy could not sleep. Insomnia is torture. Sleep deprivation is actually used as a from of torture. When you get 2 hours of sleep a night for months not only is it dangerous (it can kill you on it's own) but you actulally are no longer able to think straight because your brain and your body do not get rested. Severe insomnia causes a fuckload of serious side effects, look it up. So the guy was not thinking straight and he just wanted to sleep he was surely at his wits end. He just wanted relief. try sleeping only 2 hours a night for a month and you'll understand.

He was not a druggie he stopped doing pot in the name of his daughter (he had Matilda tatooed on his chest). There is no proof he did any drugs except pot. How many of you are pot smokers? Anyway all you bitches insulting him know full well that you have done stupid things that could have killed you and you still do, you either smoke, drink, drive drunk, fuck without protection, overeat, cross the street without looking like Mommy taught you, drive recklessly, actually are drug addicts etc... So turn that chubby finger around because all people except ME and the monks in tibet have vices.

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#11 - Agreed. I mean, shit, when I mix too many herbs in my pasta I get a stomach ache.

What a coincidence! I'm cute when I'm intoxicated too! I should be famous.

Blah blah blah
The reason this guy couldnt sleep is because he was doing boatloads of blow and H, anyone that's ever tried either can tell you it totally fucks your chances of sleeping, even when you're coming down a day or two later, it's not like this guy was some innocent victim of insomnia. Listen to what his ex used to say about his partying

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#15 - thank you, that was exactly my point on a previous post - hopefully this ruling will stop all those awful people who are judging him for committing suicide and maybe they will realise that accidents happen, and that we can't blame everyone on their past mistakes.

so, great that this should put an end to the hating, but tragic that it was such wasteful accident.

RIP Heath x

Heath was RIPped when he died... I hear he found his love match at ODActors.com... there is many gooder celebs there too. I not shure, so I will have to checked it myslef.

Boy have I learned a lesson. From now on I won't mix 6, count em 6, different pills. What the hell was he thinking? Accident?

Geez, I've taken at least three of those at one time and nothing bad ever happened to me..

The Superficial is usally mean *rightfully so" most of the time I am glad there not treating a death as a joke, my respect for his site has grown.

While he may have taken an accidental amount of these drugs, no idiot could possibly think it would be okay to COMBINE these drugs. Explain to me why someone would need to take 2 types of anti-anxiety medication, 2 types of sleeping pills, and two types of painkillers.... ALL AT ONCE? I'm sad for his death, but clearly he's a bit of a moron.

#26 - You would think it was OK if you were high on H.

Where the eff is Snarf with my effing pizza?

Funny how everyone makes all these hateful comments, yet, if something like this happened to someone you loved, I'm sure you wouldn't say the same things. Addiction to sleeping pills is not a condition that is only prominent in Hollywood. I'm sure everyone personally knows at least one person who has taken sleeping pills, multiple prescriptions, or both. Maybe you know someone who has become addicted to, overdosed and/or died because of these problems. I'm sure you were quick to call them idiots, dumbasses, etc. They deserved to die, right? Apparently, you all live in a world where only famous people and strangers are "stupid" enough to fuck up, and you and your loved ones and friends are all perfect. Give me a break.

@26 I'm with ya - popping all that stuff in one shot? C'mon I can't sleep much many nights but I don't mix up a cocktail of my favourite meds to send me off to Lullabyland.
It IS totally sad he is dead, but he was stupid regarding the drugs and not least os of his cute little kid who is now without a dad she will not ever remember except from his films perhaps (hmmm shes gonna think her dad was a gay cowboy - however grounded Williams is, how dafuck she gonna explain that one!)

#29, your conscience. When MY conscience starts spewing that sort of bullshit, I grab a bottle of Grey Goose, twist up an uber-joint and tell it to SHUT THE FUCK UP.

was it accidental???? you wouldnt take so many of these pills with no intentions of killing yourself

very suspicious

no accident to my mind

#26. Try sleeping 2 hours a night for a several months and then see what kind of stupid things you do. Severe sleep impairment is simmilar to being impaired by alchohol. A lot of car accidents are caused by sleep impairment (even just getting 5 hours of sleep). Heath was quoted as saying that he was getting only about 2 hours a night. it's not a matter of intelligence it's matter of impairment.

BTW The drugs were combined at low doses this has been reported by People.

Britney's insane behaviour has been said to be paritally caused by severe lack of sleep, it really is much more serious then people realize. Look up sleep deprivation and you'll see the host of problems it can cause (even cardiovascualr disease, seizures and severe mental impairment). It doesn't take an idiot to understand the importance of sleep and how incredibly detrimental it can be to the body and one's mental state to be deprived of it. It doesn't matter if you are a genius of a complete moron sleep deprivation is like being on drugs it will really fuck you up. Also sleep medications are very controversial and many doctors believe they don't even work and do more harm than good but, that doesn't stop a lot of idiot doctors from prescribing them. The best way to fix sleep deprivation is to wake up and go to sleep at the exact time (or bodies thrive on routine, eg; the morning shit). Sleeping in a room that is as dark as possible, ear plugs (so no noise no light) and no stimulating activity for 1-2 hours before bedtime (television etc..). Sounds easy but how many people can go to sleep at the same time and wake up at the same time everyday.

@29 I hate to burst your bubble, but if one of my family members killed themselves by taking a shit load of precription drugs, I would call them a dumb ass.

So shut the FUCK UP!!

Where are some of you getting your information? He didn't take them all at once morons. Do you not understand the nature od presription drugs, he took them too close together (ie 2 hours apart instead of 4). Also he took LOW doses. Please read some of the comments from people who actually understand sleep deprivation before you spew your brainless drivel and for those of you making such idiotic comments, don't judge when you have clearly proven that you are the kind of people stupid enough to drink a Drano smoothie.

Sleep deprivation is as bad as alcohol impairment. Heath was quoted as saying he was only getting 2 hours a night.

http://edition.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/20/sleep.deprivation/

@33 no TV for two hours before bedtime, is that for real? Who the hell can do that? That doesn't sound easy at all.

#31 - Oh, right, because losing yourself in pot and alcohol is SOOOO different from doing the same with prescription drugs. Hope you choke on your own vomit and die, dumbass.
#34 - Keep telling yourself that. I'm sure you'll always have an empty medicine cabinet.

#14? Woody, are you agreeing with me, or disagreeing? Because if you are disagreeing with me, I will be forced to crush you.

Apparently, SnakeOilSalesman.com has Heath's autopsy photos.

@37 Hey Dumb Fuck, My medicine cabinet is empty. I don't take drugs at all. I am not a weak pussy that needs a pill everytime I can't sleep or I feel a little down in the dumps.

Your Conscience's mom just ate me out.

#39 - Hey genius, I said "I'm sure you'll always have an empty medicine cabinet." Let me break that down for you. It is a statement that refers a potential future situation, as in: "Let's hope you don't have to eat your words someday when perhaps, you may not be as well off as you are today, and might need to take pain killers and/or anti-depressants, you stupid piece of shit."

Has anyone wondered why he was prescribe 2 pain medications? I know that VICELESS apparently sees insomnia as painful as some forms of torture, but I am not sure that docs usually prescribe heavy duty pain killers for sleeplessness or anxiety.
Also, I know exactly what I'm doing when I double up on the NyQuil dose, or take Tylenol 3 with a couple of beers. I am intentionally fucking around with medication to get a desired effect: a cheap high. Don't excuse Ledger's behavior. He was messing around with some very serious drugs.

#39. So does that mean you are in peak physical shape 18 BMI work out everyday, don't smoke. don't drink, don't drive drunk, don't Mclove without wrapping your dong, never drive recklessly etc... So you never do anything that could cost you everything? You're a perfect saint? I was sure I was the only one, so either you are a hypocrite or we are somehow related.

he is my favorite. I am his big fan. Is he single now? Just curious. I saw his profile on millionaire dating site CelebMingle.com last week.

That sucks, but it was pretty obvious that he ODed. Hopefully people will learn that just because drugs are prescribed doesn't mean they are harmless. There are more overdose deaths each year from prescription drugs then from heroine or cocaine combined.

i heard that lufti was his pharmacist.

i bet he's starting to stink by now....

obviously #41 is a democrat. Shouldn't you be over at Daily KOS by now?

LADY JANE HAS A PENIS!!!!!!!!!

#37 - WAAAAAAAAAAAH... my favorite celebrity was a narco-leptic... you're one of those same apologists that swears Rush Limbaugh had a problem and wasn't really a junkie, right? Fuck that... and tell your momma to go down on me once she plucks LadyJane's twat hair from between her teeth. And you tell us to empathize, then go wishing people death? And if LadyJane did in fact choke on her own vomit, would you spew the same vitriol toward her that we are hurling at Keith the fucking pill head?

#48 - Personally, I enjoy Daily Cooze...

#49 - I've seen her pussy. It made me cry tears of joy. Then I went home and smacked my wife.

#50 - Exactly my point, douchebag. Also, you and LadyJane should hook up since you are both so obsessed with people going down on you.

Not to be the buzz kill here, but the man was old enough to know better than to mix that many medications. Considering the types of medications and his recent depression, I'd say the M.E. was paid off, or felt sorry for his parents. (Likely paid off as movie stars have multi million dollar insurance policies, and his parents would be beneficiaries)

In other words if you can't save your boy... at least save his money.

I feel bad for his parents, but I can't help but feel only so bad. I can't shake the thought that he had to know what he was doing and what the outcome of it would be.

#52 - We already have. And I tell ya, our spouses were amazed at the electricity. Really, they didn't mind a bit. Well, when I came she ducked and I broke her window... but still... Now run along and watch Brokeback (again)... just be sure to bring enough Kleenex to last you until the closing credits.

hey idiots, just cause he had traces of those drugs in his body, it does mean he swallowed them down at the same time with one swig of beer. yes, that would be an intentional OD. he was suffereing from anxiety and prolly took some of that shit to get through the day. and the sleeping pills at night. the particular cocktail was a deadly combo unfortunately.

and by the way, if you wound up dead and someone looked at the contents of your stomach and found eggs, a ham sandwhich, sheppard's pie, and your midnight greasy pizza and tater tot snack, it doesn't mean you fucking BINGED on them all in one sitting.

@41 & 49 Let me break it down for you butt munch. If the day should ever come that I do need to take some kind of medication, I am not dumb enough to pop one from each bottle with out knowing what they will do. Ledger was an dumb shit for getting percriptions from several differnt Doctors and then proceded to take them all at one time..

And Lady Jane does not have a penis, she has a very hot pus..

#54 - Will do. I'll also make sure to bring enough Kleenex so I can share with you, as you cry over how much you wish you had the courage to admit to everyone that you always wanted to be pounded in the ass by a cowboy. Sniff, sniff.

#53. He was sleep deprived people don't think clearly when they are sleep deprived. Sleep depivation causes simmilar impairment to alchohol intoxication. He was getting about 2 hours of sleep a night. Read up on sleep deprivation. Jebus, why is this basic information so forein to some people. If he should have known better to not mix medication you and so many others should know enough to understand the impairment effects of severe insomnia.

oh man oh man oh man... we are all forgetting how to read a sentence!

*"...acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine."*

ACUTE INTOXICATION.

It is when you do too much of them and your liver can't help you clean it out, so the blood stream is just really really full. The effects are slowing down of your heart beat, lung failure, liver failure, seizure, coma, any number of things... oh, and death.

Secondly, OXYCODONE is a very very serious drug, much akin to Heroin. Very easy to OD on.

Diazepam is for anxiety. or are the other "aze-pams" or "azo-lams". They really calm you down. They also slow you down. For coming down off coke, or something else like, say, E, you can take a Diazepam in the morning, and go to sleep like a baby when it's time to go to sleep, instead of, say, staying up all morning thinking, "how I do hate coming down from this!"

As for oxydodone, or a hydrocodone, you are looking at fast relief from any type of pain, and potential of passing out very quickly, in a sleep that's induced by the downer effect, you got it. It also causes liver damage, and can have a very serious side effect if you have any previous conditions. You mix that with stuff in the "za-pams" section of the drug arcade, and you better be pickled or have a liver of steel to even survive it.

I've known countless druggies, and I learned most of my information from a former EMT who has been in and out of rehab for years. As a walking pharmacy, I've seen and heard many stories from him, but I would never, ever seem him mix that many drugs of those *types* together (!) unless he was really trying to kill himself.

RIP, Heath. I think he did it on purpose, and it really worked. This time.

#56. McLoven I see you have not answered my question so I shall take your silence as a clear indication that you are infact a hypocrite.

@60 Dip Shit, I don't read every comment every asshole posts on this site. But to answer your question, No, I don't smoke, I don't drive drunk, I drink in moderation, My McLoven is with the same person and therefore dose not need to be wrapped, I walk over 2 miles a day and mountain bike ride regularly. I get a physical evey year and I am heathly as a horse. And what does that have to do with taking a shit load of pills??

I love how everyone who makes comments on here has NEVER EVER done anything stupid that could have resulted in death, but luckily, it did not.

A girl walks home alone to her door after partying all night (she has done this thousands of times) but the one time some sick man attacks, rapes and kills her, it is "what a stupid girl. Shouldnt have been walking home alone and wouldnt be dead now". It's like come on!

Mostly everyone that dies, dies from doing something stupid. People who smoke cigarettes their whole life and then die when they're 70 from lung cancer died of something stupid, but that doesn't mean they are bad people and deserve to be bad mouthed.

Heath couldn't sleep and was taking medication to help him. When you haven't gotten any sleep, you can forget things. Maybe he forgot he took certain pills and took more. Anything could have happened and yet ignorant people still want to be like oh he was stupid and was asking for it blah blah blah. I hope you all die from something cool!!!

@ 50 YAY!

Fuck Limbaugh, what a fucking hypocrite that guy was, Mr Family Values Conservative, then he gets popped for taking Viagra out of the country
Why does he have fucking Viagra if he's not married, what a bunch of fucking lying, two-faced hypocrites the Republicans are..................anyways

The coroner said:

"We have concluded that the manner of death is accident, resulting from the abuse of prescription medications."

RE "Funny how everyone makes all these hateful comments, yet, if something like this happened to someone you loved, I'm sure you wouldn't say the same things."

Wrong.... I think there's enough celebrity wreckage for reasonably intelligent adults to know that mixing pills is not a smart thing to do. Whether he did it deliberately or not will likely never be answered. Who the hell knows what he was thinking? If his family wants to believe that it was accidental, fine by me. I have no problem with that, but that doesn't make it less dumb. People seem to think that drugs you swallow are less harmful than drugs you inject or inhale, or that prescription drugs are somehow "safer" than the illegal ones. Not true. Many more people die from use of prescription drugs (both self-administered and doctor- or hospital-administered) than "illicit" drugs. Too many doctors are too quick to dispense drugs because a patient complains of something like "insomnia" or "stress." When you have to take a pill to fall asleep, there is something wrong with you that pills can't fix. I'm not saying insomnia isn't real, just saying that I doubt it's as much of a problem as people claim it is, and certainly not to the extent that we need so many drugs for it.

my bouts of insomnia are usually brought around by severe stress, followed by pissiness and being grumpy. im just wondering what the hell he needed pain pills for? fun?

#57, are you baptist?

62. Melissa
First, she shouldn't have been wearing that tight skirt.
Second, People "who smoke cigarettes their whole life and then die when they're 70 from lung cancer " deserve to be ridiculed for their stupidity.

The brand names of the drugs in question:

Oxycontin
Vicodin
Valium
Xanax
Restoril
Unisom

That's 2 strong narcotics, 3 benzodiazapines, and an antihistimine, all of which are addictive and known to be abused.

That's the medicine cabinet of a junkie. He might have been off illicit drugs, but obviously still struggling with abuse issues. Pretty common for someone who needs to look like he's cleaning himself up. Expect to see alot more come about about multiple doctors, or prescriptions in others' names, because no doctor would ever prescribe that combination of drugs, no matter how bad his insomnia was, especially if there was a history of abuse.

I can understand climbing the ladder on all the benzos for insomnia, especially if he was doctor shopping. But please splain the Percocet and Vicodin, which are well known to disrupt sleep. Prescribing them both happens only in cases of severe pain, like a bulging disc in your back that compresses a spinal nerve. Or in cases of celebrity painkiller abuse, like the doc that Winona Ryder (and others) used to get their stashes of legal opiates. All the sleeping pills allow people who are just dying to mourn him to have a nice sympathy excuse (he was a sensitive artist in great psychic pain)...but then Percocet and Vicodin pills show up on the list like little white bombs. It's an addict's list, folks.

britney gave him the drugs, she is everywere..and when the police came.. the masseuse, the house keeper and jamie lynn have already hidden the pills

What i want to know is can i get a slice of that baby. I'd totally rub my softness on it's cheeks until it was time for spurt naps. And anybody would be a junkie after doing that "order" movie.

#60. Fuck face, if that shit is true about how you live then I can't really insult you as the same goes for me but I am a lady (wait you did not say you are a man but, i willa ssume you will despite the risk af assumptions). The correlation is that many people are trashing Heath when they themselves have dangerous habits or vices or just do stupid fucking things that they know full well could kill them (or others). In other words many people trashing Heath could end up just like anytime. I can guarantee you are in the minority and most people insulting him are fatties who drive drunk or smoke and do a host of brainless dangerous shit. I don't mind when people judge others if they are living well (we all judge it's how society functions) but, I can't stand hypocrites.

However there is a big difference between not being able to sleep and having severe debilating insomnia, I've seen it (not experienced it personally ) and it's torture, in fact sleep deprivation is a form of torture. I still think he was not in his right mind when he took all that shit.

Anyway I don't take any drugs at all and I actualy have several very serious illnesses (none of which are contageous or could have been prevented and I always led a clean life). So seeing people destroy their bodies makes me fucking sick, yet somehow I still feel badly for him. My doctors are amazed that I won't take pain medication but, I prefer being of sound mind and not pumping chemical shit into my body. They also prefer it as the side effects are quite serious and dependency is likely. Plus I've lived with the pain for years so I've learnt to deal with it. Anyway when you get your MRI's at children's hospitals (sometimes that's the only place they can fit you in) you learn to NEVER feel sorry for yourself. It's amazing how high your pain threshold can be when you have a little fucking perspective.

*wait you did not say you are a man but, I will assume you are despite the risk of assumptions.( jesus that one got fucked up.

*like him anytime

And all the other shit I misspelled.

Like #68 says, he was a strung-out junkie trying to pass. It was working, too - look at all the people saying "he had turned his life around!" That, plus he was in great psychological pain and unable to sleep because of being separated from his daughter and throwing himself into intense movie roles. Please. There are lots of dangerous stressful jobs and acting sure isn't one of them. He was being an actor, though - pretending to have put drug problems behind him, when in fact he was getting his opiates from Big Pharm instead of Big Nig. My favorite is "do you have any idea of the torment of extreme insomnia??!" Please - lots of people who abuse prescription painkillers have severely disrupted sleep. Why cite nebulous psychological causes when a direct chemical cause was clearly in play? The point is, this guy had the luxury in his life to stop working for awhile, go into rehab, kick his drug habits for real, and go back to his daughter and be a good responsible dad. He chose not to. Don't say he was troubled by, distressed by, afflicted with, or any of that. Those terms belong to people with real illnesses and no money to pay for proper treatment. Heath had a drug habit and plenty of money and reason to deal with it the right way. Obviously he didn't.

Damn, all this idiot had to do was learn his tolerence. I know mine every friday night and it's a lot more shit then that........

viceless, you seem to have been diagnosed as a whiny little bitch as well. Shit, get off your high horse and take a chil pill.

Here's my analysis and you will see it is an easy mistake to make. Here is what he was taking:

1) His daily prescribed anti-anxiety medicine: Xanax (aka alprazolam)
2) His insomnia sleep disorder medication: Restoril (aka tamezapam)
3) Robitussin for his pneumonia or cold symptoms (contains the Doxylamine and hydrocodone)
4) Aspirin/Percocet/Acetaminiphine (contains the Oxycodone) for the muscle aches and headaches caused by fever symptoms.
5) Valium (aka Diazepam) (This is the only part I can't explain)

All but #5 are typical for a person who has pneumonia and also suffers from depression and insomnia. 1 & 2 are probably what he took on a daily basis. #3 and #4 probably things he just began taking for his flu/pneumonia. Again, #5 is the only one I can't explain and seems unusual for the average person to take if he was already on Xanax.

#76. No thanks Mal I don't take pills, can't you read. I've been diagnosed with many things but not whiny bitch syndrome that would be Jennifer Love Hewitt you are thinking of ... oh and of course Jennifer Anniston (actually all Jennifers). What I have been diagnosed with is incurable fucking hotness and if you had the pleasure of seeing me, you'd shit your pants on the spot. I've seen it happen. Smelly butt, flattering.

OXY???? what???? Opiates will rape you no wonder this happened... oxycodone (AKA hillbilly heroin) is nuts, it should be taken off of the market because it's so addictive and even those who actually do have severe pain who take it basically have to goto rehab to get off of it, basically they're a junky. But, most people buy it off the street because it's difficult to actually get a prescription unless you've had severe trauma, surgery or cancer.

Kelly, you missed the hydrocodone. And I would love to know what kind of doctor prescribes Oxycontin for muscle aches associated with fever.

Kelly, you're quite insane. Nobody prescribes oxy for aches and pains, especially if they're already giving a cough medicine with hydro. To a person on mega-benzos. With a history of heroin addiction.

#68 nailed it - "Expect to see alot more come about about multiple doctors, or prescriptions in others' names, because no doctor would ever prescribe that combination of drugs".

Vice, I see you still have a pretty good sense of humor, though I doubt you're that hot. Incontinence is quite common among the terminally ill.

Thank you. I am very disturbed and saddened by Heath's death. However, Oxycontin and Vicodin are not prescribed for anxiety, insomnia or depression. I was waiting for someone to catch that. Nowhere have I read that he was injured or in physical pain from something, which would be the reason to take the opiates. Regardless, R.I.P. Heath. You will be missed.

Umm..people...they didn't find Oxycontin in his toxicology. They found OxyCODONE...two entirely different things. OxyCODONE is also known as PERCOCET. It's a painkiller.... I don't know about you but I take painkillers when my muscles hurt. Anytime I get sick, my neck and back muscles hurt. Especially when I have a fever.

I did not miss the HYDROCODONE. (It's listed as "#3") Police stated that they also found Robitussin in his apartment. Robitussin CONTAINS Hydrocodone. According to Wikipedia:

" Hydrocodone is an orally active narcotic analgesic and antitussive"

ANTITUSSIVE = ROBITUSSIN

Oxycodone and Hydrocodone are listed FIRST in the toxicology because they list toxicology in order of their levels in the toxicity. There were only TRACE amounts of Oxycodone and Hydrocodone because, I suspect, they were not taken as pills (remember, the police did not name either of these as one of the prescriptions taken from Heath's apartment), but were instead COMPONENTS of unprescribed medications such as ROBITUSSIN and ASPIRIN (percocet).

To clarify the record about the Oxycontin vs. Oxycodone, here is the toxicology:

http://www.keepitlegit.com/2008/02/heath-ledger-toxicology-report.html

Oxycodone and Hydrocodone are listed FIRST in the toxicology because they list toxicology in order of their levels in the toxicity. There were only TRACE amounts of Oxycodone and Hydrocodone because, I suspect, they were not taken as pills (remember, the police did not name either of these as one of the prescriptions taken from Heath's apartment), but were instead COMPONENTS of unprescribed medications such as ROBITUSSIN and ASPIRIN (percocet).

To clarify the record about the Oxycontin vs. Oxycodone, here is the toxicology:

http://www.keepitlegit.com/2008/02/heath-ledger-toxicology-report.html

HEY MCLOVIN! You're girlfriends fucking someone else and she's going to give you herpes. Watch out for those mountain lions when you ride your bike!

#82. Well you are pretty funny yourself. It's okay if you don't believe me I mean why would you I could look like Jabba the Hutt or even worse Rosie O'Donell. The internet allows for some mighty tall tales. Irregardless I'm hot as fuck and I would so love to prove it but, the internet is crawling with freaks and I've already dealt with my fair share of stalkers. If I posted my pictures my beauty would cause riots and I just can't be held responsible that, again. They say there is no such thing as perfection and it's true that's why I don't have my health but, I have EVERYTHING else and it's all fucking spectacular.

HEY MCLOVIN! You're girlfriends fucking someone else and she's going to give you herpes. Watch out for those mountain lions when you ride your bike!

I'm not familiar with all these drugs but could any of them have been taken with the rolled $20 bill? Also wondering what kind of sex life someone was capable of having while using these drugs....just wondering.

kelly shut up....give us a break please....that shit is not interesting

Oh, the truth is not interesting? The fact that he wasn't popping 50 pills and that everyone's theory that he was a drug addict was incorrect is not interesting? I get it...this isn't about a dead man's (and someone's father) reputation...it's about your own personal entertainment...right?

Angel, YES people take oxycontin with a $20 bill. Some tards also take alprazolam with a $20

#57 - I see you bought the limited (ahem) "uncut" director's edition... the one with the free dildo and warming lube. How's that working for you?

Damn...I was hoping it wasn't possible...

Kelly, you're a retard. The coroner said:

"We have concluded that the manner of death is accident, resulting from the abuse of prescription medications."

Abuse is the key word here ...

Hypothetically, if a person was out socializing while under the influence of the drugs listed, would a nondrug user be able to tell that something was up?

#57 - I only bought it with you in mind, baby.

haha. i meant 94. You know who you are. ;)

Those under the influence of oxycodone often have pinpointed pupils.....It's harder to tell when someone's on benzos because everyone reacts to them differently. Some people act drunk on them. If someone you know has no memory of what happened the night before, they were prob on some kind of benzo.

#93 we can vouch for that

roll up snort or roll up smoke

as ll will tell you... [if you could ask her]

...oxy is a helluva drug : ))

[actually... ask almost anyone with money in la]

shhhh...

So it would be easy for someone taking these drugs to just be mistaken as drunk? The medical examiner's report has opened more questions than it's answered. Like were these drugs all taken at the same time or does cumulative mean that this happened over an extended period of time.

#88, I don't want to start any riots, so it is probably best if we keep the pictures off the net. I will have to be content knowing that you are out there somewhere causing grown men to explode just by smiling at them.

#88, I don't want to start any riots, so it is probably best if we keep the pictures off the net. I will have to be content knowing that you are out there somewhere causing grown men to explode just by smiling at them.

Somewhere Amy Whinhouse takes another hit and begins laughing hysterically...

Heath should have just smoked a BIG FUCKING BOMBER to cure his ailments...Nothing like a BIG FATTY to ease your anxiety and put you to sleep.

FACT: 40,000 people die every year in North America due to Doctor prescribed drugs

FACT: No human in the histoy of the earth has died from smoking a BIG J...!

Accident, whatever. Sounds like a dip shit to me. First off; oxycodone and hydrocodone are not for anxiety or sleep issues. They are for pain and to get a nice happy high buzz from. He may not have been trying to kill himself but he was trying to get high or something from taking all that stuff. He is a druggy that OD'd, why do we need to feel sorry for him. just because he was damn movie star. People need to get off the fix and let people like this die just like everyone else. Someone who made a real difference probably just died today as well and we will never hear about it.

Anxiety issues and sleeping problems...but two of those drugs are painkillers.

LOL

Oxycontin is the delayed release form of oxycodone. Chemically they are the same, just different release profiles.

Kelly, you're very mistaken...hydrocodone is a pain killer and in some rare cases an antitussive. While robitussin is also an antitussive, it does not contain hydrocodone. Hydrocodone is a Schedule 3 narcotic that can only be obtained with a prescription. Saying that robitussin = antitussive and hydrocodone = antitussive therefore robitussin = hydrocodone is a completely false jump in logic. It has been many many years since over the counter cough medicine had opiates in it. I believe with a prescription in Canada you can get robitussin + codeine, but again...different thing.

As a few people mentioned, no responsible doctor would have prescribed oxycontin for muscle aches. That doesn't mean one didn't per se...but it's negligent. Like shooting a squirrel with an assault rifle.

My mistake, I initially read Oxycontin and not Oxycodone (Percocet). The fact remains, why the reason for the painkillers- unless they were, as someone said, components of other medications? If they were pills that he had taken previously (I know, no scripts for that were found in the house), those are some strong medications for them being doled out to someone with the flu and ailments associated with it. Hydrocodone, mmm possibly, in a cough medication, if it was really bad.

Tempo36, thank you. I was going to say that was a bit overkill. One doesn't (normally) take opiates for minor muscle aches and pains. And if Robutussin (OTC) had hydrocodone in it, it would be flying off the shelves. That class of narcotic is only available through prescription.

The day I prescribe one of my patients Schedule 2 narcotics (oxycodone) and Schedule 3 narcotics (hydrocodone) for the flu is the day I'll report myself to the licensing board.

I could possibly justify Tylenol 3 (tylenol + codeine) for a pneumonia, but it better be one hell of a pneumonia.

#69 is dead on.

i am posting #15's again. on account of the fact that none of you people were in his position. you don't know what happened and the post is 100% accurate. :]

The guy could not sleep. Insomnia is torture. Sleep deprivation is actually used as a from of torture. When you get 2 hours of sleep a night for months not only is it dangerous (it can kill you on it's own) but you actulally are no longer able to think straight because your brain and your body do not get rested. Severe insomnia causes a fuckload of serious side effects, look it up. So the guy was not thinking straight and he just wanted to sleep he was surely at his wits end. He just wanted relief. try sleeping only 2 hours a night for a month and you'll understand.

He was not a druggie he stopped doing pot in the name of his daughter (he had Matilda tatooed on his chest). There is no proof he did any drugs except pot. How many of you are pot smokers? Anyway all you bitches insulting him know full well that you have done stupid things that could have killed you and you still do, you either smoke, drink, drive drunk, fuck without protection, overeat, cross the street without looking like Mommy taught you, drive recklessly, actually are drug addicts etc... So turn that chubby finger around because all people except ME and the monks in tibet have vices.

For the sake of fairness, we don't know that he really was only sleeping 2 hours a night. I have patients who I see in jail that lie to me ALL the time. Assuming he was only sleeping 2 hours a night though, part of the problem may have been that he was on addictive medications and if he didn't take them on any given day his rebound symptoms would have made sleep very difficult.

More and more I find myself at odds with practitioners who prescribe benzo's (valium, xanax, attivan, etc) as a means of controlling stress in the long term. While we sanction medical drug use in our society, someone who takes daily benzodiazepines is no less a 'druggy' than someone who uses daily marijuana or cocaine. They are highly addicted and they will undergo withdrawal if they stop. Benzodiazepines should be used for acute stress episodes. If you are under chronic stress please look into alternative options, there are other medication options and there are other therapy options.

In the strict sense, there is absolute proof he did other drugs besides marijuana...4 of them are on the toxicology report. Prescribed or not doesn't mean they aren't what they are. I place equal blame on the practitioners who prescribe these drugs off the cuff without a thought to the consequences they will have on their patients.

Temazepam causes amnesia-- with no one there to watch, it would be VERY easy to forget what you had just taken, lump that with the insomnia and the availability of other "sleep aids" and you have a formula for a disaster. I have watched take pills to the point of OD'ing because the medication made her forget that she had just taken them. Combine that with the fact that she is a compulsive liar and lied about what she had taken and you get an ambulance ride. It happens. If I hadn't been there to see it, she might have ended up the same way as ol' Heath here.

He "accidentally abused" an entire stash of opiates and Valium. It was either intentional, or he's stupid; either way, no loss.

Hey Dr. Kildare & Dr. House...I have narcotic prescription percs at my disposal by my doctor when ever I need them. But I live with chronic back pain and arthritis...I basically have no discs left from L1 to L5...believe me...no one should be using this shit UNLES THEY ARE IN CONSTANT PAIN! Even then I only use them when I REALLY HAVE TOO! I could sell these for 10 bucks a pop easy at the local bars...BUT I DON'T BECAUSE I HAVE MORALS AND VALUES AND AM NOT SOME DOPED UP HOLLYWOOD JUNKIE THAT THINKS HE WAS ELVIS! Like any drug on earth...you abuse...you die!

boo hoo hoo, poor Heath had insomnia, it is terrible , it is like torture, well guess what if you do too much meth or crack your ass will be up all night too, did any one see the interview where he was scratching at his arms complaining of insomnia,dude was a junkie,and if he wasn't there is something called taking responsibility, what that means is if I decide to do something incredibly stupid like take a humongous amount of various drugs and then check out, then it is not the fault of the doctors or the system or whoever the new judas goat du jour is,Its mine, lets try this one more time folks, if you do too many drugs you will as someone else pointed out either die, go to jail or choose to stop.

No: 68... my thoughts exactly, there's NO WAY a single (responsible) physician prescribes multiple benzos AND sleeping pills AND pain pills (OxyContin for crying out loud... that's pain medication for terminally-ill cancer patients).

It may have been an accident on his part, and may he R.I.P. However, I'd have a difficult time believing a single doctor would prescribe that combination of drugs.

Fuck I hope they don't cremate him. Imagine how high everyone within a 10-block radius would get.

heath shouldn't be dead.

almost without exception, i HATE hollywood celebrities, but i like heath ok and it's very upsetting that he's gone. RIP, Heath.

Hey #44 back there, " he is my favorite. I am his big fan. Is he single now?"

Why YES, I believe so. In fact I'm sure he's single, you should check him out at douchebagsonlypostfake posts aboutdeadpeople.net. People who post that fake shit that NOBODY wants to see: You are a wart on the ass of this site. And that's saying a lot, ,..... there's a lot of asses on this site.
Speaking of that :) where's TT???

he ws an admitted recovering alcoholic, andso he would know that even if someone "normal" who didn't have drug history could take Oxy (not that anyone on this planet needs that much pain medicine), he would react d ifferently and could not.
(Ive been in recovery 10 years and I can't even take Tylenol PM..) If he "accidentally" put all that shit in his system he lied to get it, to the many drs and to himself. It doens't mean it's not tragic, I'm way more sympatetic to him than say, a loser with man " issues". But don't defend him like he was some boy scout-he was what he was.

who said he just took them one after the other - how long do they stay in your system.. maybe he took them over the space of a few hours? I doubt he was thinking clearly. Actual experts (I assume, unlike you fucknuts) say that someone could do this accidently, although his doctor should have been aware of all of these prescriptions (unless he had not been upfront to his doctor or had gone to multiple doctors, n ot always being in the same place).

No one is saying he is a boy scout - I think people are saying he was just realatively normal. He was sick, he made a wrong choice, he probably didn't think "death would happen to him", he probably just wanted to go to sleep and feel better when he woke up. Its sad its happened, its a lesson to others...don't know how many will heed it - I mean people still speed in their cars, taken drugs socially - thinking "it won't happen to me" - then when it does, the rest of us are here to say "oh what an idiot, I mean seriously, don't be sorry they are gone, they deserved it as obviously they are not as smart as me".

People who are claiming he was a drug addict....where is your proof for this? Are you basing this on one little video clip taking 2 years ago saying that he used to smoke more pot than he should have. I think you can't really go around saying he probably overdosed on drugs because he smoked a lot of pot..... smoking pot doesn't mean he used harder drugs... and because he did it in the past doesn't mean he was still doing it....

there were no illegal drugs in his system - so whatever he was, he wasn't on them so you should stop treating him like he was some bad-guy-dumbass who deserved to die because of his drug addiction.

119: If Heath was a junkie, then why was there no cocaine or heroin on his toxicology report? The fact is, Heath wasn't a "junkie" in the traditional sense of the word. He was a depressed man, most likely suffering insomnia as a result of the anti-anxiety medication he was on. There is no indication that he was depressed before the break-up of his relationship. If you look at photos and interviews of him after his break-up, that's when you see the changes in his demeanor...once he began the anti-anxieties/anti-depressants. "Itchies" are a side effect of taking things like Xanax. What you are diagnosing as a withdrawl symptom is actually a side-effect. Do a google search of "itchies" with "xanax".

I think Heath's death is a result of the "trickle effect" of taking anti-depressants. They cause side effects which are treated with other prescriptions that cause more side effects that require other medications. Eventually, you are taking too many medications at once and sitting on a timebomb.

I have been in a deep state of depression. My doctor prescribed anti-depressants but I refused to take them because I didn't feel I needed them and I associated them with "crazy" people. I was not a crazy person. However, I would sleep all day during the weekend and find it impossible to sleep at night on work days. I remember I would take a soma to go to sleep at night....even if for only a few hours. Eventually I came out of the depression on my own. Here is what continues to puzzle me: Why are we, as a society, so afraid to "feel" anything? If we continue to drug ourselves to remain at a level "mood", then when do you really feel ALIVE? Being alive is experiencing the ups and downs...love and hatred...joy and sorrow. If you want to be dead inside, then keep taking these drugs and eventually you will literally be dead altogether. If you want to be ALIVE, then feel your pain and sorrow and grow from it and appreciate those moments because they are blessings to your soul. How can we love if we never hate? How can we understand true joy if we never feel sorrow?

STOP NUMBING YOURSELF AND LIVE!

good god, sad, verbose, confessional-type sermons as above, leaving your personal prayers and secret meaning-of-life diary entries here is akin to just screaming into the void. keep getting or immediately seek professional help or maybe volunteer somewhere where these kinds of extremely personalized, faux-soulful admissions might mean something. how gauche.

STFU @HOLES how rude are allof you it was an ACCIDENT. Hes not a doctor so how was he supposed to know.

The fault lies with a prescription system where if you go to different doctors each can give you something that conflicts. We need better record keeping. Don't put a dead man down it was an accident. AND I'M SURE HED TAKE IT BACK IF HE KNEW WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED.

Kelly, you are misinformed. I am clean now but have been in rehab and outpatient methadone treatment for the abuse of oxycontin, and yes, some people then would have called me a JUNKY. Oxycontin is time-released oxycodone, which is chemically similar to heroin.... crush it up to snort and you dissolve the time release anyway.... learn your facts. Prescription drugs can be abused, oxy is a terrible drug that puts people through hell, just like heroin/coke/crack/whatever.

I hope that all of you that make this hateful and reckless comments about Heath burn blissfully in hell. It's so classy of you to take the plunge on him now that he can't fight back... Really brave!
Yeah... Awesome.... Just fucking burn in hell. All of you, motherfuckers!

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