Sep 29 2009DJ AM overdosed (In case there were doubts.)
DJ AM's death has been ruled an accidental drug overdose by the New York medical examiner's office, according to the AP:
The toxicology report showed the 36-year-old had in his system cocaine, OxyContin, Hydrocodone or Vicodin, antianxiety drugs Xanax and Ativan, Klonopin which also controls anger, Benadryl, and Levamisole, a drug apparently used to cut cocaine.
The cause of death was acute intoxication due to the combined effects the drugs, the medical examiner's office said. The dosage of each drug was not released.
He was found Aug. 28 in his apartment in New York City's trendy SoHo neighborhood after a friend called 911. Paramedics had to break down the door before they found him, shirtless and wearing sweat pants, in his bed around 5:20 p.m.
Six pills were found in his stomach and a pill in his throat when he was found dead in his apartment. The pill in his throat appeared to be OxyContin. A crack pipe and prescription pill bottles were discovered there.
No one's saying if it was a suicide, but I don't really know what a person expects to happen after shoving that many drugs in their face. For example, if I went out back and chugged a can of Raid, that's not so much accidental as a purposeful act of self-inflicted dumb. So if somebody could maybe change that on the death certificate...
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Reader Comments
1. Yah! - September 29, 2009 1:29 PM
MY first first ever!
2. http://www.thefamousphere.com - September 29, 2009 1:30 PM
If my life involved staying out late, playing music, having banged Mandy Moore, and travelling all over the world, i'd probably overdose, too. Only logical thing to do.
3. Huh? - September 29, 2009 1:32 PM
@1: Congratulations. Now your empty life is still empty.
4. Tom B. Hanks III - September 29, 2009 1:45 PM
3 = homosexual rage
5. big noses because the air is free - September 29, 2009 1:48 PM
Oxycontin AND Vicodin??? Wow, he must have been in a lot of pain. Like a person might feel after having both hands and feet pierced by nails.
6. Motoring Fred - September 29, 2009 1:48 PM
Is this Jimmy Fallon in the pick?
7. moka - September 29, 2009 2:06 PM
hey #1 congratulations, it feels good! i've had two firsts also.
:)
8. Huh? - September 29, 2009 2:19 PM
Ooh, clever comeback Mr. Hanks. Yes, I could see how you could confuse sarcasm with rage. Do you people seriously aspire to posting "first" on blogs? That's like aspiring to be the idiot jumping up and down while standing behind a newscaster doing a live broadcast.
9. Casey Jones - September 29, 2009 2:22 PM
good riddance you waste of space.
10. ___ - September 29, 2009 2:38 PM
#7, are you serious?
11. Mal Gusto - September 29, 2009 3:01 PM
What does it take for the Hollywood press to label this an intentional overdose/suicide?????
Clearly this guy was trying to die. Oxycontin in his throat?? Cause he was feeling the effects yet still wanted more.
SUICIDE!
I am just a bit sensitive right now..... a friend committed suicide2 weeks ago....Broke a mirror, slashed his femoral arteries and his throat.
Srry for the rant.
12. Beastman AIDS - September 29, 2009 3:34 PM
#11
Did your friend leave you any neat shit?
13. Mal Gusto - September 29, 2009 3:39 PM
Yeah... a grieving wife and a bunch of unanswered questions.
But, I did see a camelback (water pouch) that I hope to get when this all cools down
14. JK - September 29, 2009 3:58 PM
nice Mstrkrft shirt. doubt any of the douches that listened to his music even know who that is. guess he had a little bit of good music taste.
15. JK - September 29, 2009 3:58 PM
nice Mstrkrft shirt. doubt any of the douches that listened to his music even know who that is. guess he had a little bit of good music taste.
16. Rhialto - September 29, 2009 4:03 PM
It wasn't suicide but it was an accidental drug overdose.That's really the last honor they could give him.
17. Rhianna's Bruise - September 29, 2009 4:21 PM
Anyone think it should have been Travis Barker in his place instead? Or both... you know, like an "accidental suicide pact"?
18. what - September 29, 2009 4:22 PM
wait, who is this person again?
19. Mal Gusto - September 29, 2009 4:24 PM
#16...I've done a ton of drugs and over shot my target high plenty of times, but the differences between these 3:
unintentionally doing more than you planned
actually overdosing
doing enough to kill yourself
The dosage differences are gigantic. It takes a surprisingly large amount of drugs to kill a person. Ask Tommy Lee and Vince Neil
20. bribios - September 29, 2009 4:34 PM
First posters need to follow in AMs footsteps. Or get jobs.
21. Clamhammer - September 29, 2009 5:03 PM
Doo doot dun dun Dunt, Doot Doot dun dunt dunt....OOoosh, Ooooosh, OOoosh....Peeeeew, OOoosh, Ooosh, OOoosh....GERF!
DJAM's Electrocardiograph during his last moments.
22. eric dane - September 29, 2009 5:09 PM
so being a DJ is actually a real job? Really?!?
23. hehehehe - September 29, 2009 6:15 PM
Some big name DJs make Tens of THOUSANDS of dollars to play other people's music for an hour or two. I'd say that's a pretty good job.
And yeah, somebody wanted to die.
24. Logie - September 29, 2009 7:11 PM
Klonopin is not to control anger, it's in the same class as xanax (benzodiazepines) -- anxiety medicine
25. Shelley - September 29, 2009 7:21 PM
"accidental" drug overdose? Really?
26. jake - September 29, 2009 7:54 PM
why don't people understand that they can't mix some stuff and then wash it all down with some crack?
27. Shani - September 29, 2009 10:33 PM
This Just In!!!
WHO THE FUCK CARES ABOUT THIS STUPID DRUGY LOW LIFE PIECE OF GARBAGE!
He overdosed, boo hoo. The only ones who care are his drugy friends and ex drugy girlfriends. who the fuck cares that Nicole Richie is sad...she's a useless overpaid for doing nothing shit head and so were all of his dumbass hangers on.
28. Annie Likes Anal - September 29, 2009 11:48 PM
The tragedy. D.J.'s are such artistic geniuses. It will be impossible to replace him. Where oh where will you find someone that can play other people's music in nightclubs. The tragedy.
29. Olpol - September 30, 2009 1:56 AM
"I don't really know what a person expects to happen after shoving that many drugs in their face"
Exactly! This guy and Heath Ledger both did the same stupid thing. I don't know how anyone can reasonably believe that an averagely intelligent person could do this NOT knowing it's going to kill them.
Therefore these should be classified as 2 cases of suicidal stupidity.
30. Rancid - September 30, 2009 7:51 AM
#5 - brilliant
I have no problem believing that it was unintentional. Someone who is wacked out on pills is going to forget the dose he took just ten minutes ago, and narf another handful.
Trust me - they think suicide is much more sexy than just being a dumb shit. So they WANT us to think it was suicide - not a pampered asshole who didn't have the sense to keep count of his pills (even senile old people have those things that look like a big plastic calendar and ration the pills).
31. gotmilk? - September 30, 2009 10:33 AM
is there even such a thing as an accidental overdose? i'm pretty sure you assume the risks when you put all that shit into your body. there is nothing accidental about it.
still not caring.
32. money belt - October 15, 2009 8:51 AM
I feel so bad that he died, especially because of drugs! RIP!! but jesus christ people STOP DOING DRUGS!! why do people do them??? please stop!!!