Heath Ledger

tat2duser · 02-06-2008, 03:52 PM

"Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine," the office said in a short statement....

Hydrocodone and oxycodone are painkillers. Diazepam is an anti-anxiety drug commonly sold under the brand name Valium; alprazolam is also an anti-anxiety drug, sold under such names as Xanax. Temazepam, sold under such names as Restoril and Euhypnos, is a sleeping agent, as is doxylamine.

And we all take - or HAVE taken this crap....

tat*

jules3 · 02-06-2008, 04:09 PM

you see how easy it is to die..

reachout · 02-06-2008, 04:13 PM

Tat

I was just reading the same bulletin. How sad, how very, very sad. I look at how my own abuse started, how it crossed the line and feel greatly for the death of this young man. It is often in desperation that we make the choice to take more than we should of a prescribed med. It is just so easy to do, so damn easy. When we eventually find ourselves in that horrible place of addicted, of actually abusing, we are often shocked that we are there. I sure was.

How do we learn to reach out for help before we hit that place? I am not sure. How do we realize when it starts to spiral out of our control? I has a breakdown... in hindsight, it is probably what saved my life. I was in such a state of desperation, just like I believe heath Ledger was. I had a breakdown, he died. Lord, it is just all so sad.

Don't know what else to say.
reach

bass11 · 02-06-2008, 04:33 PM

just read report also and it sent chills up my spine. what heath was taking is very similar to what I have been on before , oxy ,clonopin, xnax and abien.
my heart goes out to his family, it easily could have been one of us. maybe this will be a wake up call for the nation and some of the problems we have now with prescription drugs

mandypaige24 · 02-07-2008, 11:53 AM

Why do people mix all of this crap thinking that they are above this very outcome. Our bodies, our lives, are on loan to us all. We should be treating them as temples not as dumpsters with no bottom!!!!!!!! Makes me so angry. Now a little girl will lead a life without her father....