Ledger's Death Ruled "Acute Intoxication"

121. Galactica, you can think whatever you please but there is absolutely no evidence that he was gay or bisexual, nor is there any evidence that he wasn't it. Being bisexual, as he would have had to be if he had a child with Michelle Williams, is not a reason in this society for the self-loathing that would be required to self-medicate to the point you are suggesting. Only fundamental zealots would react that way to the realization that they are bisexual. He was an actor. He acted a gay man once in his entire career. Rock Hudson was gay but played macho he-men for his entire career, clearly his sexuality did not interfere with his acting so what makes you think Heath's would.

Texan 1950 and tookie, please don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are pain management clinics which do just that. I have a friend who is severely disabled and only the pain medications she has been prescribed make her life livable. The problem is with the people who go to pain management clinics who are not in severe pain and only go there to get the opiates they need to get high and with the doctors too crooked or stupid to check.

Tookie, I hope your lack of sympathy doesn't come back to bite you in the ass. You don't know what problems he was struggling with. You don't even know if he was taking those pain meds to get high. Different people have different methods to deal with real world stress. Clearly, part of your strategy is coming on this site and making comments. I do it, too. But it's still an avoidance mechanism. Be careful when you start throwing stones at glass houses. You're living in one.

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Posted at 7:25PM on Feb 10th 2008 by Baseball Junkie

122. As an insomniac myself (and without the added stresses, etc. that a celebrity deals with), I understand how utterly DESPERATE one can get while dealing with such a crippling disease. Health obviously became so desperate for sleep and given the available meds (no problem getting too many from doctors today even if you have to go to a couple at once) simply used bad judgement (which is compromised when you are sleep deprived) and took too many. Simple, sad, and heartbreaking for Matilda BUT doesn't make him suicidal. Anyone critical......go a few months without sleep.

Posted at 1:24PM on Feb 15th 2008 by sharon

123. Technically, this is not a large amount of drugs for one person to take... The problem is that the doctor that perscribed them could have perscribed them for someone who is antcy/high strung (like Heath apparently was.. Look at interview he did and you will see he is very jumpy, beyond the jitters from even a small amount of cocaine).. To top this off,, With the schedule he had been on, it is very difficult to get your mind to stop, even when your body is exhausted... A problem can occur just by his taking these drugs all at once instead of spreading the doses apart.. Another problem is that it was said that he had gone to a doctor in England who perscribed the same meds... Now if he was running out of his perscriptions and went to this doctor for refills (not knowing if he would have enough until he returned to the USA), the USA and England tend to have differant doeses on the drugs depending which country you go to, so if the medications of even one of the drugs was slightly differant in mg's, it makes a big differance even though a toxicology would not question it because even though mg's are differant, they are still on the "safe dosage" scale... Not only combining drugs (even perscriptions) for one person is fine, another person could be differant and need alternate medications or dosages... It was the total combination that is the culprit and it occurs every day...

Posted at 4:05AM on Mar 24th 2008 by AngeLsLuv