HEATH LEDGER'S AUTOPSY RESULTS: Accidental Over Dose from 6 medications.
It is being reported from the New York Chief Medical Examiner's Office the cause of Heath Ledger's death.
Heath died from accidental over dose of prescription drugs that included painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication.
"Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine," medical examiner's spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said in a news release.
The drugs are the generic names for the OxyContin painkiller, the anti-anxiety drug Valium, Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug, and the sleep aids Restoril and Unisom. Hydrocodone is habit forming. It is possible become physically and/or psychologically dependent on the medication.
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