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p2pnet news | Movies:- Two doctors from Los Angeles and Houston have been cleared of supplying the OxyContin and Vicodin found in the bloodstream movie star Heath Ledger, found dead in his bedroom last month.
"The Drug Enforcement Agency questioned the medics and found that both of them had met with the ‘Brokeback Mountain’ star and prescribed him other medications, but they are not the source of the two powerful drugs taken by Ledger, 28," says the New York Post.
Singer Lindsay Lohan, posing nude as Marilyn Monroe, called Monroe’s suicide "tragic," adding the movie star and Ledger were, "both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone".
Soon after the medical examiner released his cause of death, "the DEA issued subpoenas to try to determine if there were medical conditions attached to all the drugs found in his apartment. That investigation is still ongoing," sdays People mag, adding:
"Besides Oxycodone and Vicodin (also known as Hydrocodone), autopsy results also showed that Ledger’s system contained Diazepam (commonly called Valium), as well as Temazepam, which treats anxiety or sleeplessness; Alprazolam (also known as Xanax); and Doxylamine, a sedating antihistamine often used as a sleeping aid."
Also See:
New York Post - Heath docs cleared, February 29, 2008
prime examples - Heath Ledger a Hollywood ‘tragedy’, February 19, 2008
People - Report: Doctors Cleared in Ledger Investigation, February 29, 2008
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February 29th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
sad
he was a good actor.
he will be missed
March 5th, 2008 at 5:56 am
the 2 doctors ‘are NOT the source of the 2 (narcotic) drugs taken by ledger’. then who was the source? the reports said that all the prescription meds. were in heaths name. it’s fairly common for the prescibing doctors name to be on the container too!…..no wait!…….it’s the law! this whole thing is a really shoddy cover-up. i’d just love to know the truth! the fibs and smokescreens are a real insult to his fans. sadly, when you become famous, you become public property. we’re the mugs who put him where he was, (wealthy and privelidged) we deserve to be told the truth. it’s evident, from what is being said, that he had drug problems. nothing will change that. why is there such a whitewash here? would MKs lawyers have anything to do with it?
March 5th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Heath obviously couldn’t handle the heat in the kitchen. And he was too fond of the food to get out. It’s a really sad thing. A brilliant young actor, with the world at his feet. A beautiful baby girl, a seemingly loving family, a lifestyle that some would kill for, and yet he was unhappy and complex. Unfortunate things happen for everybody; it’s a fact of life. He was lucky that he didn’t have to face some of the ghastly living problems that some people have to face on a daily basis. Drug addiction IS ghastly in itself, but his standing and money could have afforded him the absolutely best rehab. But that’s no value, unless you really want sobriety. It’s like he was caught in no mans land. Drugs do that to you. You just don’t care. I know. I got hooked after experimenting with cocaine. I was a nice gal from a good family and somewhere along the line (pardon the pun) things got out of control. I always thought that I would ‘beat’ it one day - and I did. I’ve been clean now for 28 yea4rs. Don’t even think abiout it. Some aren’t so lucky - especially when money’s no problem. Especially when you’re riding really high. (pardon the pun, again). Maybe Heath was a typical artistic/creative person who couldn’t adjust to life in the fast lane…sensitive….fragile. Doctors have a lot of power. Prescribing of medication is a weighty task, but ultimately it’s up to the client to be responsible. Heath was either very irresponsible, very addicted to drugs in general or very stupid. I prefer to think he had become an addict over the years - in a funny sort of way, it gives some solid meaning to his death. That is, if you see addiction as a very unfortunate sickness. Uncontrolable, unsympathetic. It doesn’t choose favourites. Why wasn’t Heath exposed as a drug addict? Instead of c=covering up for him, instead of not talking about it, people could have (craftily) steered him in the right direction. His famous career would have been jeopardised, but he might have lived. His daughter might have known her father.