Coroner Confirms: Four Prescription Bottles Found at Corey Haim's Home
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Four prescription bottles were found at Corey Haim's North Hollywood apartment, Los Angeles Coroner assistant chief Ed Winter confirms to UsMagazine.com.
"There were no illicit drugs found at the residence. There were four prescription bottles taken," Winter tells Us. Details on the prescriptions have not yet been released, but Winter says they were "just normal prescriptions."
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"The Los Angeles Police Department reported it was a possible drug overdose, but we've seen no signs of foul play at this time," Winter continues. "It's pending an autopsy and toxicology."
Winter explains that Haim awoke early Wednesday morning not feeling well.
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"His mother was with him. He got up. He felt weak, and she helped him on to the bed. She called paramedics," Winter tells Us. "They responded and transported him to the hospital. He was pronounced [dead] at 2:15 a.m.."
Haim's body was "not in bad shape," Winter says. "He had been sick for the last couple of days with flu-like symptoms."
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Haim was best known for 80s films including License to Drive and The Lost Boys.
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22he looked like hell so bloated and haggared
Stop blaming everyone else but Corey. Corey is responsible for his own death. I guess we don't have to hold celebs accountable for the bad things they do.
Oh please prescriptions are not all bad! Many SAVE lives! Diabetics MUST HAVE certain prescriptions to live as do other people with other health problems! Get off the high horse and saying that prescriptions are bad when they really arent!
When Megan Fox said that everyone in Holllywood does drugs and that she only knows 5 people around her who is substance free I think she was right. I thought I would just help people clue in more to how bad Hollywood is when it comes to drugs! Here are just some of the celebrities I know of who has done drugs and are still using. Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Heath Ledger, Kate Moss, Jim Carrey, Charlie Sheen, Snoop Dogg, Anna Nicole Smith, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Robert Downey Jr, Amy Winehouse, Sylvester Stallone, Tara Reid, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oliver Stone, The Baldwins, Nick Nolte, George Michael, Michael Jackson, Brad Renfro, Howard K Stern, Macaulay Culkin, Tom Sizemore, Chris Benoit, Tatum O'Neal, Madonna, Jada Pinkett Smith, Andy Dick, Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown, Melanie Griffith, Naomi Campbell, Ozzy Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, Jack Osbourne, Courtney Love, Marilyn Manson, Colin Farrell, Steve-O, DMX, Chyna, AJ Maclean, Aaron Carter, Angelina Jolie, Kirsten Dunst, David Hasselhoff, DJ AM, Joaquin Pheonix, River Pheonix, John Mayer, Mary Kate Olsen, Elvis Presley, Kristen Stewart, Nick Carter, Mischa Barton, Pete Doherty, Lil Wayne, Keifer Sutherland, Janice Dickinson, Charles Barkley, Brad Pitt, Artie Lange, Eminem, Coolio, Heather Locklear, Boy George, Ryan O'Neal, Craig Robinson, Sean Paul, Steven Adler, Ron Wood, Gary Dourdan, Chris Farley, Natasha Lyonne and the list goes on and on. I think this says alot and that's a pretty good chunk of people! And there will be plenty more drug related deaths in Hollywood to come because celebrity drug use will do nothing to change the situation! We are experiencing a overdose epidemic people! Accidental deaths from illegal and legal prescription drugs have increased in the last decade! 22, 000 Americans died from this in 2008. This a terrible example for our youth! Any celebrity out there who's addicted to drugs or alcohol...PLEASE GET HELP NOW!
prescribed meds work for what they are intended for.. BUT when u r sick and mix ur meds with certain cold/flu meds DEADLY combo!! my daughter has been/is on meds that were found in anna nicole and brittany murphy's blood stream. u CANT mix flu meds with prescribed meds!!! TYLENOL PPL!!!
To Cassandra: It was reported on the radio that Corey Haim was offered a spot on Dr. Drew's Celebrity Addiction show, but he turned it down. They also said he was working with an addiction counselor & was allegedly being prescribed drugs to combat the ones he was addicted to. He may not have wanted to do his rehab on television.
Sounds identical to Brittany Murphy. It also sounds like the swine-flu. This is how its been taking people down. Normal healthy young people dying out of the blue. It doesn't discriminate or pick and choose who goes.
Eeery coincidence...sounds exactly like Brittany Murphy's death. Flu-like symptoms and prescription drugs.
He's not suffering anymore (physically or emotionally. RIP.
all drugs lessen your ability to be aware and perceive, thus accidents result. ALL DRUGS! they mask the real problem. our society just wants to take a pill to fix their problems. this will never solve their problems ever. it may make you feel good and numb for life or make any unbalance you have worse and you hurt another or commit suicide. Those are the choices prescription drugs provide.
"oh please" below, marie osmond touted the same thing and then lost her son. god forbid, this does not happen to you or someone close to you. not having your eyes open to the dangers of these drugs will not make the dangers go away. look up all illegal drugs today and you will find they were all prescription drugs at one time. Cary Grant was prescribed LSD for example. Have you researched the origins of street drugs today? All used to be gotten by a prescription.
prays go to his family...
Poor Corey! God only knows what he was going through. It's sad that he was raped as a teenager by some known person and didn't really have anyone to talk to about it. Not even his friend Corey who still remained friends with the person who Corey claimed to rape him. I'm not sure what else he was going through but I always hoped that someone could reach out to him and he could get better. Hollywood is a effed up place and I don't understand how anyone would want to go near it. RIP COREY! :(
Prescription drugs are safe when they are taken as directed. They actually save lives on a daily basis.. so the anti-Rx ranter needs to take a seat. People dying from prescription drug overdoses are not oblivious to what they are doing.
Prescription drugs are safe when taken as directed. They actually save lives so for the anti-rx rant.. obviously you need to do some research. People dying from prescription drug overdoses are not oblivious to what they are doing.
Cassandra you can't force people to get help if they don't want it. Unless the courts force him into treatment.
isn't it obvious that prescription drugs are taking a lot of lives???????????? hello? illegal drugs used to be legal. people think taking legal drugs is okay while the drug companies make billions off of drugging people to death. wake up america, presciption drugs are not safe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and, do not cure anything! they just mask the problem until it is so bad, death results. look at marie osmond's son, heath, anna nicole, michael j plus all the unknowns in america which just aren't publicized. this is a crime, and yes foul play is involved when people are being prescribed drugs and dying from them. enough is enough. is america to apathetic to care i wonder?
The flu and taking lots of meds is killing people.
It was nice to look at old, nice pictures of Corey Haim! And, it was nice to see a lot of stars remember him! How sad Melissa Joan Hart just saw him last week at a Lupus Event, and now, he's gone!
So sad, it's sad that his mom found him like this!