According to MTV News the Federal Drug Enforment Agency is investigating actor Heath Ledger's death.
The actor died from an accidental prescription drug overdose and the DEA is looking into details of how the actor was prescribed Oxycontin and Vicodin that were combined to form a lethal cocktail. The investigation is reportedly focused on two as yet unnamed doctors based in California and Texas.
DEA officials have made it clear that the investigation is not looking into the circumstances behind Ledger's death and that the recent determination that he died from an accidental overdose of prescription medications still stands. In addition to the pills secured from the two doctors in question, the actor's autopsy also found the presence of Xanax, Valium, Temazepam (a skeletal muscle relaxant for patients with severe insomnia) and Doxylamine (also a sleeping aid, often prescribed to pregnant women). Those results have since been subpoenaed by the investigators.
Although it remains unclear whether there was any wrongdoing on the doctors' behalf — whether they both prescribed the Oxycontin and Vicodin or did it independently of each other — the Daily News reports that the investigation hopes to uncover the circumstances that enabled the actor's self-medicating mistake. "It's an ongoing investigation," a source in law enforcement told the paper. "It's not clear if there was any wrongdoing." source
A haunting new music Nick Drake video called Black Eyed Dog directed and filmed by Heath Ledger has hit the web. Heath was obsessed with British rocker Nick Drake who committed suicide and died of a prescription antidepressant drug overdose in 1974. In the eerie video Heath plays the main character who commits suicide and drowns himself in a bathtub. The show A Current Affair debuted the "death in the bathtub" clip on their recent broadcast.
Heath Ledger Black Eyed Dog Nick Drake Haunting Suicide Death in the Bathtub Video - ACA
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