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Heath Ledger's Accidental Overdose - Discussion Thread (Was: Breaking News)

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TOoP/Bruce:
I don't know enough about any of this to be comfortable pointing the finger of blame at anyone for what happened.  Things that seemed to be reported as fact two weeks ago, now seem to be in question.  I honestly don't know how much of what I even think I know is real.

I do know that with regard to his creativiy, I considered Heath Ledger a force to be reckoned with, and with his passing, I feel we are all much the poorer.

Verona:

--- Quote from: RossInIllinois on February 06, 2008, 03:08:57 pm ---If you are not taking the drugs as perscribed you are a drug abuser. If you call your Dr. and ask him what is safe to take you are not.  Just taking hand fulls of pills without talking to a Dr first is drug abuse. You have a brain, use it please.

--- End quote ---

Um, Ross, I was referring to an example I gave in a previous post:

There are times when I have allergy problems and take an antihistamine. Then later on in the day, I get a bad headache, and unthinkingly take a few ibuprofen. I have epilepsy, so I take that at night, also unthinkingly. And then I feel awful and can't sleep, so I might take a couple of Tylenol PM.

This is a scenario that no one would consider "drug abuse" or even particularly odd. I don't take "a handful of pills," EVER. And rare is the day when I take more than Advil. Anyway, Benadryl, Advil and Tylenol PM are not prescribed. Taking one or two of an OTC pill cannot be considered "drug abuse," and to take something for allergies and a headache hardly puts me in the "has no brain" category. Chill.

souxi:

--- Quote from: TOoP/Bruce on February 06, 2008, 03:16:01 pm ---I don't know enough about any of this to be comfortable pointing the finger of blame at anyone for what happened.  Things that seemed to be reported as fact two weeks ago, now seem to be in question.  I honestly don't know how much of what I even think I know is real.

I do know that with regard to his creativiy, I considered Heath Ledger a force to be reckoned with, and with his passing, I feel we are all much the poorer.

--- End quote ---

Your right Bruce. At the end of the day, does it really matter who or what is to blame? The fact remains that a young man and a devoted father has died. A young talented man in the prime of his life, who had so much to live for and so much more to do with his life. It was just a tragic accident and no one can do anything about it now.  :'(

mvansand76:

--- Quote from: TOoP/Bruce on February 06, 2008, 03:16:01 pm ---I do know that with regard to his creativiy, I considered Heath Ledger a force to be reckoned with, and with his passing, I feel we are all much the poorer.

--- End quote ---

{{{{{Bruce}}}}}

moremojo:
I think one positive outcome of this story may be in reminding us all that prescription drugs are still drugs, and that they can be used and abused in any number of potentially harmful ways, just as illicit drugs can be. We in the West are very much a drug culture, throwing pills at every imaginable kind of problem, avoiding the behavioral therapies that earlier eras used (and, admittedly, not always successfully) to grapple with emotional and mental stress. We don't see how our very lifestyles can become toxic--Heath's schedule leading up to his death sounded positively inhuman. So we take uppers (caffeine), downers (alchohol), and everything in between (cigarettes, chocolate) to cope.

Drugs can be wonderful tools in bettering our lives, but they must be used with moderation and wisdom. And in the drug-obsessed culture in which we now live, wisdom in this area is often in short supply.

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