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

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RossInIllinois:

--- Quote from: Verona on February 06, 2008, 02:55:28 pm ---Well, as someone who also sometimes takes a combination of different medications on any given day, I suppose I should also call myself a "drug abuser." And if I should be found dead tomorrow from a deadly cocktail of, say, Benadryl, Advil, Tylenol PM and anti-seizure drugs because I had allergy problems which led to a headache which led to the inability to sleep, and I had no choice but to take my seizure drugs... well, I guess my family and friends will just have to accept the characterization that I "abused drugs."

My name is Verona, and I am a junkie.

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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.

mvansand76:

--- Quote from: Ellemeno on February 06, 2008, 03:04:23 pm ---
Heath was young (and thus possibly still in the "I'm immortal" stage), extremely fit and physically courageous ("I can handle this, I'd like to try."). 
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But that's just it, he wasn't feeling very well the past months, as he said, he suffered from insomnia and was extremely tired from only sleeping two hours a night.

MaineWriter:

--- Quote from: Ellemeno on February 06, 2008, 03:04:23 pm ---Is there a report of the actual amounts, or concentrations, of these drugs in his system?  I would like someone who knows how to interpret that to tell us their opinion. 


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The medical examiner promised a bare minimum report (no time of death) and that is what we got. I doubt that any further information will be forthcoming from that office.

I posted the image of it earlier in this thread.

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Ellemeno:
Well, I already want to rescind the word "disappointment" used in that way, because it is what it is, and you're completely write, natali, no one is perfect.  

And there is nothing like having drugs in one's system to derail one's intelligence and good sense.  

Verona:
When you take something, and it appears not to work, you often take more... not realizing that just because you don't feel any different doesn't mean the chemicals you just took don't exist in your body. I think it's a psychological thing, that if you don't feel any different, the pill you just took "had no effect," so it's safe to take more. I mean, look at the words we use to describe this... we say we've become "immune" to the drug, which means they don't affect us. But they DO, whether we feel it or not. If you take Ambien every night, at some point that pill will stop working. It's human nature--not irresponsibility--to try two because you think one "didn't do anything." I think that was probably the case here. The idea that pills that didn't make him feel any different just magically disappeared in his body, and it was OK to take a different one.

Please tell me that made some sense.  :-\

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