On Jan 24, 10:35=A0am, "Sharon Too" <askformya...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "The nearly full bottles contained the anti-anxiety medications
> > Alprazolam (Xanax), Diazepam (Valium) and Lorazepam (Ativan). The
> > sleeping medication Zoplicone (Lunesta) and the sedative Temazepam
> > (Restoril) -- which is used by people with "debilitating insomnia" -
> > were also found, according to TMZ.com."
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> > Can any of these meds listed have fatal side effects if taken in
> > combination with each other??
>
> Absolutely. He was also taking another prescription sleep medication
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> Ambien. So that's three narcotics/controlled substances (Valium, Xanax,
> Ativan) and the three RX sleep agents. From what I understand, he's had
> serious insomnia for a while and getting 2 hours each night wasn't
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> He had been trotting back and forth between continents and filming a
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> I can see how the sleep deprivation and other factors could have made
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> desperate and confused enough to overdose. This may have been going on
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> enough that he built not only an addiction to these meds, but also a
> tolerance making him take more to get the affect. So sad.
I guess one train of thought is that he'd been taking these drugs so
regularly that they just overwhelmed his body and he just died in his
sleep simply because his body just gave out. I read yesterday that
tox screens came back with minimal amounts of these meds in his
system, so now the theory is that he did, indeed, just fall asleep and
slip away (heart failure), with no underlying cause as to why.
--- Cory
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