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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
these stories is like a guy smoke cigs his holw life, has lung cancer, smokes a joint and then dies in his sleep. then media says "weed killed him!!!"
the joint didnt kill him, i know most wont get that, but cocaine didnt kill this guy, his EXISTING heart disease did. so he did come coke, this is just sensationalism.
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Bingo. He could just as easily died a couple of days later after drinking a couple of beers and they would be reporting that it was the alcohol that did it. Though reporting alcohol isn't as "sexy" as coke is. Much bigger ratings if you can lead people to believe it was cocaine.
Reality is the guy had a bad heart. He shouldn't have been doing ANY of those drugs. I'm not even sure if he knew he had a heart condition or not...but I know if I found out I had a bad heart, I would cut out the coke and drinking. I don't touch painkillers so that's a moot point for me, but if I were him and knew it I believe I'd get some rehab for those before this kind of thing happened.
Pretty sure the painkillers are what caused his heart to give out by the way. During the Michael Jackson reporting the newscasts had doctors on that said vicodin and Oxycontin both slowed the heart and breathing down to a crawl and could cause your heart to stop if you took too much.