I'm wondering how Haim could have died from taking Painkillers. And Michael Jackson, too. I mean, does prolonged use of Painkillers enlarge your heart and cause the kinds of damage that killed these people?!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+do+painkillers+kill+you

Are you speaking as an outsider who doesn't take painkillers for a living? I must consume about 8 throughout the day - and I know it is bad to do, but I perform my work on DVDTalk.com, as well as the job I actually get paid from, without fault. It's when I don't have them that my work suffers (withdrawal symtoms are a bitch).

Perhaps a hospital self-induced coma would help me withdrawal from my addiction without suffering. My old man neighbor contracted "all-body GOUT" (ouch), so the hospital put him INTO a COMA for two weeks, until the Gout healed up enough for him to live without complete and utter misery.

Would that work for drug addicts? Seems like it would work like a charm! ????

holy fuck. this explains SOOOOOOOO much.

Who is Panteli Faithon Sr.????

it was a morbid joke regarding Haim's role as "Lucas." You're supposed to ignore the other writing on the tombstone.

Yep. In fact, I really don't like to take pills at all. Call me a conspiracy theorsist, or whatever, but I just don't trust most of the pharmaceutical companies out there, so unless I'm really sick or I have an unbelieveable headache, I don't take pills ever. Plus, I've had friends & family who have had struggles with pill addiction, and I don't even want to chance it. I don't see the appeal. But if you have to take pills for chronic pain, that's another thing. I'm sure Corey was taking a lot of pills, in bad combination, and that's what ultimately killed him.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Corey Haim employed "doctor shopping" to obtain 553 prescription pills in the two months before his death, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Tuesday.

Haim obtained the meds, which included Valium, Vicodin, Xanax and Soma, through seven different doctors and seven pharmacies, Brown said, and he used an alias on at least one occasion.

Brown said it did not appear the doctors knew Haim was obtaining prescriptions through multiple sources. He said investigators verified Haim filled the prescriptions this year, but have also found that thousands of pills were obtained in Haim's name before then.

He called Haim — the star of 1980s films such as "The Lost Boys" and "License to Drive" — a "poster child" for prescription drug abuse. He said that it wasn't just celebrities who were obtaining massive quantities of prescription drugs through doctor-shopping.

"We think it illustrates a problem that is more widespread," Brown said. His office has pursued more than 200 cases statewide involving prescription abuse by both doctors and patients.

Haim's activities described by Brown Tuesday are separate from a fraudulently-obtained prescription Haim may have obtained. That prescription for the painkiller Oxycontin was found during an investigation into a ring that illegally obtained prescription pads and used the stolen identities of doctors to fill them out.

The pills Brown said Haim obtained in the two months before his death included 149 tablets of the painkiller Vicodin and 194 tablets of the muscle relaxant Soma. He also received 15 tablets of Xanax and 195 tablets of Valium, both of which are depressants, Brown said.

Haim, 38, died March 10 after collapsing in his mother's apartment. Haim struggled with drugs throughout his life. He was also suffering from flulike symptoms before his death and his official cause of death has not been released.

Coroner's officials have said they found four prescriptions in Haim's name in the apartment where he collapsed, and all were prescribed by a doctor treating the actor.

Mark Heaslip, the actor's agent, did not return a phone message seeking comment Tuesday.

Brown, who is running for governor of California, said the doctors who prescribed medications to Haim told investigators they felt duped. He said Haim was able to get the medications by complaining of specific symptoms, such as shoulder pain and that the actor also used emergency rooms and urgent care facilities to obtain the drugs.

He said investigators were able to find the medications obtained by Haim through a state database called CURES, which monitors prescriptions. The database is available to doctors and pharmacies, Brown said, but its use is voluntary.

Corey Haim died of natural causes
Coroner ruled that drugs found in system were not a factor
Associated Press May 4, 2010, 04:44 PM ET

The coroner has ruled that actor Corey Haim died from pneumonia complications and that drugs found in his system were not a factor in his death.

The Los Angeles County coroner's office released its findings Tuesday on the 38-year-old actor, who died March 10 after collapsing in his mother's apartment.

Haim had low levels of both over-the-counter and prescription drugs and some marijuana in his body but his death was ruled natural.

Previous reports said Haim had prescriptions for large doses of powerful painkillers, including Oxycontin. But no Oxycontin was found in his system.

Good to know it wasn't the drugs that did him in. Well, not officially, at least.

They can spin it now any way they like, but we know better.

Everyone knows his mom killed him after he flunked his drivers test then lied about it,and stole & wrecked his grandpa's Caddy

exactly.

Healthy 20 and 30 years olds don't routinely die of pneumonia and heart disease.

Brittany Murphy died of "pneumonia complications" too didn't she? I guess that's code now for shit load of drugs.

Factors Associated with a Higher Risk in Healthy Adults

Dormitory or Barrack Conditions. Recruits on military bases and college students living in dormitories are at higher-than-average risk for Mycoplasma pneumonia. These groups are at lower risk, however, for more serious types of pneumonia.

Smoke and Environmental Pollutants. The risk for pneumonia in people who smoke more than a pack a day is three times that of nonsmokers. Those who are chronically exposed to secondhand cigarette smoke, which can injure airways and damage the cilia, are also at risk. Quitting smoking reduces the risk of dying from pneumonia to normal, but the full benefit takes 10 years to be realized. Toxic fumes, industrial smoke, and other air pollutants may also damage cilia function, which is a defense against bacteria in the lungs.

Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Alcohol or drug abuse is strongly associated with pneumonia. These substances act as sedatives and can diminish the reflexes that trigger coughing and sneezing. Alcohol also interferes with the actions of macrophages, the white blood cells that destroy bacteria and other microbes. Intravenous drug abusers are at risk for pneumonia from infections that start at the injection site and spread through the bloodstream to the lungs.

Everybody dies of something.