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Doctors Investigated In Connection With Heath's Death
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Federal drug authorities are investigating doctors in Texas and in California in connection with Heath Ledger's death last month, according to the NY Daily News.
Autopsy results reported an accidental mixture of prescription drugs and now docs in two states are being investigated for possibly having supplied Ledger with Oxycontin and Vidodin. Authorities want to know if the drugs were prescribed illegally, according to the News. A law enforcement source told the paper, "It's not clear if there was any wrongdoing."
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Heath Ledger is a federal case
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... , Heath Ledger's death is getting the federal treatment. Two doctors are currently being scrutinized by federal drug investigators, according to NY Daily News: ...
Heath Ledger’s pills are now a federal case.
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... NY Daily News says, The doctors - one in California, one in Texas - are believed to have supplied the “Brokeback Mountain” star with the powerful painkillers Oxycontin and Vicodin, law enforcement sources said. Authorities want to know if the drugs were prescribed illegally. “It’s an ongoing investigation,” a law enforcement source told The News Tuesday. “It’s not clear if there was any wrongdoing.” ...
Cops Looking At Docs In Heath Ledger Death [Heath Ledger]
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... reports that one doctor in California and one in Texas supplied Ledger with Vicodin and Oxycontin, and the feds want to know if the whole deal was legal. Nothing has been established yet. The two painkillers were among the six drugs in Ledger's system when he died of an overdose in January. [NYDN] ...
Precribing Doctors investigated in Heath Ledger’s Death
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... Federal drug authorities are investigating two doctors over the death of actor Heath Ledger, according to the Daily News. The doctors one practicing in California, the other in Texas are believed to have supplied the late actor with the powerful painkillers Oxycontin,and Vicodin. At issue is whether or not the powerful painkiller were prescribed legally. The revelation came more than a month after the 28-year-old Australian acror’s naked body was found in his SoHo loft. However, immediately following the actor’s death, DEA reportedly subpoenaed ...
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The doctors - one in California, one in Texas - are believed to have supplied the “Brokeback Mountain” star with the powerful painkillers Oxycontin and Vicodin, law enforcement sources said. Authorities want to know if the drugs were prescribed illegally. “It’s an ongoing investigation,” a law enforcement source told The News Tuesday. “It’s not clear if there was any wrongdoing.”
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Heath Ledger Federal Drug Investigation
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... Immediately following the death of Heath Ledger, DEA reportedly subpoenaed several documents from the NYPD and the Medical Examiner to try to determine exactly where Ledger got his cocktail of prescriptions that eventually caused his death. The agents are looking into whether these drugs were properly prescribed by physicians. According to NY Daily News: ...
2 doctors probed over Heath Ledger’s prescription painkillers
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... in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. When they split up last summer, he moved into the Broome St. loft where he died.
Two private memorial services were held in Los Angeles before Ledger’s body was flown to his hometown of Perth, Australia, where loved ones remembered him in a star-studded funeral service on Feb. 8.
The following day, Williams and about 50 of the actor’s closest friends dived into the ocean at his favorite beach in an emotional final farewell.
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