HEATH LEDGER – THE MAN WHO FELL ON HIS TABLETS AND DIED?

“Accidental Death” – that’s an intriguing choice of words to describe how the life of another highly talented, hugely successful, and overtly admired, rich and famous person ended. The words I would choose are “negligent death”

Either Heath was negligent for taking such an obviously dangerous mix of strong medications without any knowledge of the possible interactions and outcome; OR, negligent on the part of his health care providers for being responsible, or irresponsible, for him being in possession of such a lethal mix of drugs. This man should not be dead yet.

Let’s take a look at what this guy put into his mouth: In simple terms he took a mix of painkillers, sleeping pills, and anti-anxiety medications…

1) Oxycodone (OxyContin) – Narcotic pain killer – Usually prescribed for moderate to severe pain. Should not be combined with alcohol, other narcotic pain medications, sedatives, tranquilizers, muscle relaxers, or other medicines that can make you sleepy or slow your breathing.

2) Hydrocodone (eg Vicodin) – Narcotic pain killer – Has an analgesic potency similar to or greater than that of oral morphine. Hydrocodone may increase the effects of other drugs that cause drowsiness, including alcohol, antihistamines, pain relievers, and anxiety medicines: Dangerous sedation, dizziness, or drowsiness may occur if hydrocodone is taken with any of these medications.

3) Diazepam (Valium) – Anti-anxiety pill – In a group of drugs called benzodiazepines. Diazepam is used to treat anxiety disorders, alcohol withdrawal symptoms, or muscle spasms. Before taking diazepam, tell your doctor if you take any other seizure medications, or if you are using any of the following drugs: narcotic medications such as hydrocodone, oxycodone.

4) Alprazolam – Anti-anxiety pill - Alprazolam is used to treat anxiety and panic disorders. It belongs to a class of medications called benzodiazepines. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you take drugs that cause drowsiness such as: medicine for sleep, narcotic pain relievers, antihistamines.

5) Temazepam (Xanax) – Sleeping tablet – Is in a group of drugs called benzodiazepines: Used to treat insomnia symptoms, such as trouble falling or staying asleep.

6) Doxylamine – Sleeping tablet – Doxylamine is an antihistamine: Used for treating occasional sleeplessness and difficulty falling asleep.

Now if we summarise – that’s two types of narcotic pain killers (similar to morphine), three benzodiazepines, and one antihistamine – none of which should be mixed with the other!

These aren’t just over the counter Paracetamol and St John’s Wort tablets we are talking about – Each one individually cold take someone’s life if taken in the wrong amounts.

I’ll be honest – I’m perplexed as to how bad Heath must have told his MDs that he was feeling for them to be swayed to prescribe some if not all of these meds? “Hey doc I’m having trouble sleeping and my mind is racing.” “Well, how about I give you some Hydrocodone – it’s as strong as Morphine.” What the…?

"Accidental death": What happened - did he walk into his bedroom, trip over and land on the bottles which knocked them down his throat? Let's be brutally honest, this guy sat with a glass of water (and hopefuly not a glass of scotch which would make the mix even more lethal) and swallowed at least six heavy duty tablets in a short space of time.

So what happens that these celebrities seem to have much more leathal tablets in their bathroom cabinet than the rest of us?

1. Do they get given stronger pills because they are more important than the rest of us? "I'm a very important person, I've gotta be filming on the set tommorrow - you'd better give me the best pills you've got". Do MDs bow to this kind of customer pressure and prescribe stronger than normal meds?
2. Do MDs get "star struck" and give "wonder drugs" that they would not normally prescribe. "I'd better give this famous person the best stuff, then they might think I'm the best doc in town - and I might become the "doctor of the stars"."
3. Do the pills not work very well, so the patient "doctor shops", getting a stonger and more potent med each time, while collecting the half-empty bottles, which in a moment of weakness, suffering or pain - the patient decides "maybe if I take one of each - one of them's gotta do the job".
4. Do we have a well-concealed celebrity pack of prescription drug addicts (until they blow up in car parks, A-list parties or are found dead in their bedroom)? Five of the six drugs above are well-known addictive substances, often used by pill abusers, and often combined for maximum relief.
5. Do we have a medical system that lacks fail-safe precautions? These are dangerous drugs - how hard would it be to have an online prescription registry where a patient gets listed when prescribed this strength of med? Then if a person visits another MD they can cross-check the history before signing off on yet another bottle.

THE FILM ABOUT VACCINES THAT YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SEE

This stunning censored interview was cut from the TV program The Health Century due to its huge liability - the admission that the Merck drug company has been injecting cancer viruses into people worldwide.

If you find the content shocking, consider watching the second video, the entire movie, “In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood & Bioterrorism”.

This film is produced and freely distributed by consumer protector and public health expert, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, and features the world's leading vaccine expert, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, explaining why Merck's vaccines have spread AIDS, leukemia, and other horrific plagues worldwide.

Watch the video/s at Mercola...

AIDS VACCINE THAT CAUSES AIDS

Merck tells AIDS vaccine volunteers who got jab

Thousands of people who volunteered to test an experimental AIDS vaccine that may have actually raised the risk of infection will be told if they got the actual shot, researchers said on Tuesday.

Merck & Co. Inc. and academic researchers said they would "unblind" the study, meaning everyone would find out who got the active shot and who got a dummy injection.

Two international trials of the experimental vaccine were stopped in September after it became clear the vaccine did not prevent infection with the AIDS virus.

The trials were conducted in the United States, Peru, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Australia and South Africa.

Earlier this month, researchers said they saw some worrying indications that the vaccine somehow raised the risk of infection, although they stressed the vaccine could not itself cause HIV infection.

They had already begun counseling volunteers that they could be at higher risk of HIV, a fatal and incurable virus that causes AIDS...

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DANGEROUS CHEMICALS IN COMMON BABY PRODUCTS

The Environmental Working Group surveyed 3,300 parents asking what products they use and compared the ingredients to lists of chemicals known to cause allergies, hormone disruption, damage to the nervous system, and cancer.

Dr. Rebecca Sutton, an environmental scientist conducted the study. “What we found is every day through the use of personal care, kids are exposed to 27 chemical ingredients that have never been assessed for safety... not by industry, or by the government.”

Juanita Forster, a San Mateo mother with three little girls is shocked.

“You think if it’s sold on the shelves and there is a beautiful baby on it, it's safe for babies," said Forster. "To hear that it’s not is amazing to me”...

...The study found 89% of products labeled "recommended by a doctor" actually contain what Dr. Sutton considers dangerous chemicals...

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SLEEP DRUGS NOT VERY EFFECTIVE - BUT VERY POPULAR

Rozerem, a sleeping pill, costs about $3.50 a pill; gets you to sleep 7 to 16 minutes faster than a placebo, or fake pill; and increases total sleep time 11 to 19 minutes, according to an analysis last year.

If those numbers send you out to buy another brand instead, consider this: Sleeping pills in general do not greatly improve sleep for the average person.

American consumers spend $4.5 billion a year for sleep medications. Their popularity may lie in a mystery that confounds researchers. Many people who take them think they work far better than laboratory measurements show they do…

Dr. Karl Doghramji, a sleep expert at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, agreed. “Sleeping pills do not increase sleep time dramatically, nor do they decrease wake time dramatically,” he said. “Despite those facts, we do find patients who, when they take them, have a high level of satisfaction.” Dr. Doghramji has disclosed in the past that he is a consultant to pharmaceutical companies.

Most sleeping pills work on the same brain receptors as drugs to treat anxiety. By reducing anxiety, the pills may make people worry less about not going to sleep. So they feel better.
Another theory about the discrepancy between measured sleep and perceived sleep involves a condition called anterograde amnesia. While under the influence of most sleep medications, people have trouble forming memories. When they wake up, they may simply forget they had trouble sleeping.

“If you forget how long you lay in bed tossing and turning, in some ways that’s just as good as sleeping,” said Dr. Gary S. Richardson, a sleep disorders specialist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit who is a consultant and speaker for pharmaceutical companies and has conducted industry-sponsored research.

Sleep, after all, causes a natural state similar to amnesia, one reason toddlers often forget their violent nightmares by the next morning. If you stay in bed, as most people taking sleeping pills do, amnesia is not a bad thing.

Even some people who sleepwalked while taking Ambien, which was implicated in cases of odd, sometimes dangerous behavior while sleeping, believed they were having a good night’s sleep. Rosemary Eckley, a graphic artist said she thought she was sleeping well on Ambien but woke to find her wrist broken, apparently in a fall while sleepwalking, she wrote in an e-mail exchange.

Click Here To Read The Full Article At The New York Times...