Breaking News: DJ AM's Death Ruled an Accident
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DJ AM's death has been ruled an accident due to substance abuse, the New York Medical Examiner has confirmed to Usmagazine.com.
A spokesperson for the M.E. tells Us the cause of death is "acute intoxication" due to the combined effects of cocaine, oxycodone (painkiller Oxycontin), hydrocodone (Vicodin), Ativan, Klonopin, Xanax, Benadryl and Levamisole (a drug dealers cut cocaine with).
"Our investigation is completed," spokesperson Ellen Borakove tells Us.
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The Associated Press reported that DJ AM (real name: Adam Goldstein) had six Oxycontin pills in his stomach and one undigested in his throat when he was found dead in his New York City apartment at age 36 in August. A crack pipe was also discovered nearby.
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67The benadryl gives it away. He woudln't take that to get high he did it to die
Here we go again! DEA is gonna have a free for all with this, just as they did with Anna Nicole and MJ and countless others. This will be used agains chronic pain patients just as it has before. It is sad, very sad that he didn't get help...
Addiction is a disease.. and depression and addiction can cause people to do things they would not normally do in the right state of mind.. never judge someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes. It is a sad situation. I hope he is in a better place.
So sad, I wonder what he was trying to "numb" himself up from, on the outside looking in you'd think he was happy, successful, and ready to take on the world. It just shows that you can never judge a book by its cover, my heart goes out to his family and friends...
The drugs may have not been illegal(except the coke) but he was illegally abusing them. He was an addict. Which is sad that he didnt get help. People shouldnt judge, who knows what was going on in his life.
TO: Educate Yourselves I did not assume that he took a handful of pills. I'm just saying he put them in his mouth and it doesn't matter if it was a week ago, 3 days ago or today, he did it. And he probably drank like a fish and who knows what.
To those who keep posting "how could it be an accident when he took all those pills".....it's not that he took all of those in one night, that is what was in his system....some were from days ago....he was on the valium/xanax type drugs(Klonopin, Xanax and Ativan) from the plane accident, (it's anti-anxiety and anti-depressant)as well as some pain meds (vicodin and possibly Oxy) which he said himself in interviews...the benadryl is an over the counter cold medicine (antihistamine for allergies) which only leaves the illegal drug of cocaine and the cut that's in it - even if one pain med was not prescribed, the rest were so yes, they were in his system!! You all assume he just took a handful of pills that were illegal and that is wrong! He may not have realized mixing his scripts with cocaine would do that - heck, he may not have even thought about his medications, he just partied.....it's sad either way but to say he took all of that at once is wrong and irresponsible! Learn your facts before bad mouthing!
How can this be an accident? He took all those pills himself and so it cannot be an accident. It is a suicide or they need to call this a stupid moron act of self medicating.
I can't believe that this man was gonna be the host of an intervention show!! Helping people get clean when all the while he was tweekin'! What a hypocrite! And as far as the death ruled as an accident, WTF? Are you kidding me? How can someone accidentally ingest all those meds without planning on dying young~ Just like Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole and many countless others. Sad thing is that there will be many more to come. Guess tinseltown has nothing better to do than do the dope and wipe their asses with rest of the money.
To Mayra...accident is the new term for anyone in the news..weather it be suicide or murder where drugs are involved...that way no one can be held responsible for giving or prescribing them...and of course the person taking them cant be held responsible either...
He was nothing more than a junkie...he had 8 to 9 drugs in his system...and a crack pipe...how did he get all of this..either he was buying and using illegally or there is a doctor and/or doctors that should have been aware of what he was taking and subscribing it stupidly or illegally..my daughter works in the medical field and when they call in a script it comes up when they got one from whom they got one and how often..how did he function as a human being on all of this...how do you die with 6 still in your stomach and one in your throat...what he choked on the last one...if he wasn't in the news or rag mags he would be as unimportant as some john doe in an alley somewhere....
How could this be ruled accidental?? Too many drugs in his system and especially for someone who had abused drugs in the past. He knew about drugs and dangerous amounts. At least I would think so. Coroner's ruling = weird.
How many pills total did Adam Goldstein take? He was way too young to die!
Not accidental...how many people have died from this before and yet others still do it? Stupidity...and I agree...stop being so P.C.
Accident? I think not. You put the junk in your body on purpose, so how is the aftermath of it an accident?
It was obviously a suicide. No one accidentally takes all of those medications. He was a druggie who was going broke. Like most other celebs. Lets just state the facts people stop being so P.C.
Obviously it was a suicide. I understand that suicide is difficult for a surviving family to accept, but I don't think that's a good enough reason for the medical examiner to rewrite history and call it an accident. Remind me not to have a fatal heart attack on that ME's watch - who knows what crazy scenario he'll come up with. RIP Adam.
You take 9 pills with one in your mouth and you take a drug that cuts cocaine and oxycodin sounds like Anna Nicole Smith so this should get Howard K Stern off.. Why accidental when the room was baracated and no one could get in and he told the door man he did not want to see anyone.. than shoves all these pills in his mouth and they pronounce it accidental... Guess Michael Jackson is too ACCIDENTAL...WITH ALL THE OTHER DRUGS IN HIS SYSTEM...
a total suicide. i don't need to be an ME to figure that out. look at all those drugs in his system. sick.
Poor guy.... RIP Adam, RIP HEATH LEDGER! They are in a better place with God now. :( Just so sad that these young people are losing their lives to these drugs.