Breaking Heath Ledger News!
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Nickel
curiouser and curiouser
Why are you being so defensive about a stranger?
itsbob
I bowl overhand
IF I remember correectly, the problem with taking multiple medications is they are only tested to one degree of compatibility, one against one. No drug has been tested as to compatibility to two or more other drugs. A pharmacist or a doctor really wouldn't know what to warn you about.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
I thought you said you were done posting in this thread??
here let me get the door for you...
**SLAM**
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toppick08
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Benzos are extremely addictive, but they are pretty safe if taken as prescribed. He abused the drugs. Whether his death was intentional or not, it was caused by his abuse of those drugs.
theArtistFormerlyKnownAs
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no...most of those drugs have the same general ingredients. If you mix a few different ones then you're taking way too much of a certain thing...and the doctors know what is in what medication. If they didn't then we'd see so many more cases of this because things were being mis-prescribed.
Nickel
curiouser and curiouser
I have a hard time believing a doctor would legitimately prescribe that combination of meds. My brother had his effing leg cut off and he wasn't on that many meds.
Toxick
Splat
I've been following it, and I didn't know that the roll was messing with his head. I know that Ledger's Joker is supposed to be way darker than Nicholson/Burton's joker, but I didn't know it was that much darker, so that it was actually haunting the actor.
I've never been a big Heath Ledger fan, but I am a squealing fanboy of Nolan's Batman franchise, and from the looks of it, Ledger pulled the new Joker off masterfully. I'm sorry to see him gone, just for that fact alone. (And plus he was supposed to appear in the third installment, I understand... I hope they write him out of it, instead of trying to replace him, like they did with Rachael Dawes in The Dark Knight. That's just lame).
By all accounts he was also a very clean-cut, non-stupid person, so I have to wonder what he was thinking. The dangers of prescription medications are not any big secret, and mixing "codones", even sounds fatal. So if he was an intelligent, straight-lace type, I'm surprised that he would have mixed medications like that - at least without making sure there wouldn't be undesired consequences.
LordStanley
I know nothing
itsbob
I bowl overhand
Your brother probably is not rich either, and probably doesn't always get what he wants.
Nickel
curiouser and curiouser
Legitimate, Bob. Money doesn't make it legitimate. The medications were prescribed, obviously. Doesn't mean they were prescribed legitimately.
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theArtistFormerlyKnownAs
Well-Known Member
Thats what he is saying....
man has money, pays doctors, gets any prescription he wants :shrug:
itsbob
I bowl overhand
I understand legitimate.. and I also understand legal.. I also, however, understand money and priviledge.
You and I can't go to the doctor and tell them.. "I need Oxycontin" and get it, not without a good medical reaon and purpose.
Someone with money and notoriety however, can probably call it in, and have an assistant go pick it up, and if they wanted more they'd just call another doctor (that's probably famous in the right circles) and get more.
Nothing illegal about it.. it was LEGALLY prescribed, by a licensed doctor.
Now Anna Nicole Smith is in good company..
LordStanley
I know nothing
Or just find a good corrupt doctor. Im sure they are a dime-a-dozen in hollywierd
kom526
They call me ... Sarcasmo
More than likely he was "Dr. shopping" to get all those meds at once.