Who’s Next on the Celebrity Hit List?

By Doug Bremner On July 19, 2010 · 8 Comments

Lindsay Lohan, party on

A couple of months ago I wrote in my post “Another One Bites the Dust” about Hollywood actress Brittany Murphy dying at 33 from a combination of different prescription medications, including hydrocodone, acetominophen, methamphetamine, and chlorpheniramal. That was just one more to drop, after the death of socialite and Johnson & Johnson family heiress Casey Johnson (“wifey of Tela Tequila, who is now in rehab herself with Dr Dr on the Celebrity Rehab TV show. Casey was taking a string of prescription medications, including Oxycontin, Klonopin, Valium, Xanax, and Ativan. She was also using marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy, and had diabetes. She died at the age of 31. Actor Heath Ledger died from prescription medications including OxyContin, Hydrocodone, Valium and Xanax, and the sleep aids Restoril and Unisom. Anna Nicole Smith died at 39 while on choral hydrate, Klonepin, Ativan, Benadryl and Topamax. This occurred just a few months after her son Daniel died from a combination of Zoloft, Lexapro, Serax, Valium, and methadone. And last year I wrote about the death of Michael Jackson, another victim of prescription medications.
These drugs include pain medications (Hydrocodone, Oxycontin), benzodiazepine sedatives used for anxiety or insomnia (Valium, Klonepin, Ativan, Serax, Restoril).

Tonight at 8 pm EST I will be on the Nancy grace show (Headline News) and the topic will include Lindsay Lohan.
Now Lindsay is off to jail, and the worst part of it for her will be that she can’t take her drugs with her. She apparently has been doctor shopping, and is on Zoloft, trazodone, Nexium, Adderall, and dilaudid.

Taking opiates, amphetamine stimulants, and psychotropics, and mixing them with alcohol and cocaine, is potentially a very lethal combination. When you put so many mind altering substances into your system, who nows what will happen. But unfortunately the end result is that these young starlets eventually stop breathing.

8 Responses to Who’s Next on the Celebrity Hit List?

Son of Incogneato says:

July 19, 2010 at 1:11 pm

Prozac Nation staggers onwards. Comatose.
Whatever happened to burning a doobie over a glass of wine?
Thought-provoking and ultimately sad.
Therapy Patient says:

July 19, 2010 at 2:03 pm

Reportedly Michael Jackson paid other people to get prescriptions for him, so even a nationwide computer system to track drugs patients are taking would not stop the wealthy partier. Anyone taking that many meds knows they are risking their life, in my opinion. The stakes sure have risen since I was a teen in the late 60′s early 70′s, though the determined fast drinker could kill themselves “accidentally” with just booze back in the “good old days” before designer psych drugs were so common.
American Shrinkery Update: Dan Carlat MD in ‘Unhinged’ | Before You Take That Pill says:

July 20, 2010 at 10:43 am

[...] who is on trazodone, Zoloft, Adderall and dilaudid, mixed with alcohol and cocaine, just one in a string of celebrity disasters to bite the dust on these lethal combinations. And when I pointed that out on TV last night, a [...]
Felice Debra Eliscu says:

July 20, 2010 at 8:57 pm

Somewhere burried in the google search of my name is a comment I made years ago about Prozac Bushes…I never saw one….Then I mentioned a Plant grown by the Almighty G-d that people DIE FOR and I was Tortured and Called INSANE FOREVER,,,still am a hostage of Wisconsin Eugenics Programs Nobody Cared
Felice Debra Eliscu says:

July 20, 2010 at 8:58 pm

When you take the CARE out of HEALTHCARE you get DETH.
Barbara says:

July 21, 2010 at 10:16 am

You didn’t mention the most heartbreaking (to me personally) med related death in recent years: Heath Ledger. People were SO UPSET over his death yet it didn’t seem to send much of a wake-up call. I had two girls in my house last night that were on Xanax and Klonopin and Vodka. Young people especially just don’t get it.
Doug Bremner says:

July 21, 2010 at 1:21 pm

@Barbara I did talk about Heath Ledger
Wade Belak, Another Death Due to Prescription Pain Killers? | Before You Take That Pill says:

September 1, 2011 at 8:18 am

[...] of psychotropics like antidepressants, pain killers, and alcohol and street drugs that I have written about here, including Brittany Murphy, Heath Ledger, and Michael [...]