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Carrie Fisher Had Cocaine, Heroin, Ecstasy in Her System, Autopsy Shows

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Carrie Fisher had cocaine, methadone, heroin and ecstasy in her system when she died in December, according to an autopsy report released Monday.
The coroner’s report listed sleep apnea as the primary cause of death, with drug intake as a contributing factor. The report stated that Fisher’s family objected to a full autopsy, and coroner’s investigators had access to limited toxicology specimens. The conclusions were based on toxicology results and an external examination of Fisher’s body.
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Carrie Fisher Autopsy: Cocaine, Heroin, Ecstasy in Her System | Variety

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Sound like she'd used the drugs before the flight.

It was also apparently sleep apnea that contributed to her death.
 
Well, if you're gonna go, may as well go in style.

I always envisioned checking out while flying high, but I didn't mean it quite that literally.
 
Visbek said:
Sound like she'd used the drugs before the flight.

It was also apparently sleep apnea that contributed to her death.
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How would sleep apnea contribute to one's death if they were not asleep at the time? I assumed she was awake on the plane but I don't know.
 
backpacker said:
How would sleep apnea contribute to one's death if they were not asleep at the time? I assumed she was awake on the plane but I don't know.
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You can have a heart attack overnight and not know it. That would be my guess.
 
backpacker said:
How would sleep apnea contribute to one's death if they were not asleep at the time? I assumed she was awake on the plane but I don't know.
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The sleep apnea angle was probably released by a publicist or family member. Understandable that most families don't want to acknowledge drug use as the cause of death.
 
backpacker said:
How would sleep apnea contribute to one's death if they were not asleep at the time? I assumed she was awake on the plane but I don't know.
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Sleep Apnea May Boost Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death ? WebMD
Sleep apnea raises the risk of sudden cardiac death, according to a long-term study that strengthens a link doctors have suspected.

"The presence and severity of sleep apnea are associated with a significantly increased risk of sudden cardiac death," said study leader Dr. Apoor Gami, a cardiac electrophysiologist at Midwest Heart Specialists-Advocate Medical Group in Elmhurst, Ill.

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Sudden cardiac death kills 450,000 people a year in the United States, according to study background information. It occurs when the heart unexpectedly and suddenly stops beating due to problems with the heart's electrical system. Those problems cause irregular heartbeats. The condition must be treated within minutes if the person is to survive.
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Looks like it leads to sudden cardiac death due to heart arrhythmia.
Heart rhythm problems (heart arrhythmias) occur when the electrical impulses that coordinate your heartbeats don't work properly, causing your heart to beat too fast, too slow or irregularly.
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Heart arrhythmia Overview - Mayo Clinic
 
truthatallcost said:
The sleep apnea angle was probably released by a publicist or family member. Understandable that most families don't want to acknowledge drug use as the cause of death.
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That is really my thinking. Maybe she had it but it wasn't a problem until she had drugged herself unconscious. Not sure. Kind of like someone dying with all kinds of stuff in their system and it being called an "accidental overdose"
 
Give her some credit. She didn't smoke any weed. She was trying to save her lungs. Commendable.
 
truthatallcost said:
The sleep apnea angle was probably released by a publicist or family member. Understandable that most families don't want to acknowledge drug use as the cause of death.
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Not true in Carrie Fisher's case:
“My mom battled drug addiction and mental illness her entire life. She ultimately died of it. She was purposefully open in all of her work about the social stigmas surrounding these diseases.

“She talked about the shame that torments people and their families confronted by these diseases. I know my Mom, she’d want her death to encourage people to be open about their struggles. Seek help, fight for government funding for mental health programs. Shame and those social stigmas are the enemies of progress to solutions and ultimately a cure. Love you Momby.”
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Carrie Fisher Had Heroin, Cocaine in System When She Died ? As Daughter Billie Releases Emotional Statement

Her daughter has been forthright and open about her mom's drug use and mental health. As was Carrie Fisher.
 
backpacker said:
But that doesn't seem to have been the case here since the article indicated she had episodes throughout the flight. It is all a bit confusing, but as I indicated above, I think the drugs are being under played.
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Heart arrhythmia can occur at any time. It can occur like this:
Heart arrhythmias (uh-RITH-me-uhs) may feel like a fluttering or racing heart and may be harmless. However, some heart arrhythmias may cause bothersome — sometimes even life-threatening — signs and symptoms.
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Heart arrhythmia Overview - Mayo Clinic

And then it turns in to a heart attack.

Look at my reply to truthatallcost. Fisher acknowledged her problems all her life and her daughter is continuing to do so in an effort to attract attention to drug addiction and mental health. She is not underplaying it, in the least.
 
Drugs kill. there is no doubt about it.
it is a plague on anything and everything they touch.

they destroy people's jobs, families, lives and everything else.
 
Someone like Carrie Fisher dying of sleep apnea is pure neglect.....if she was that bad she had to know it, and if she died from it she did not take proper measures.
 
ludin said:
Drugs kill. there is no doubt about it.
it is a plague on anything and everything they touch.

they destroy people's jobs, families, lives and everything else.
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The part you seem to ignore is that drugs ALSO make positive changes in life. That's why the prescription drug business is so lucrative. That's why most humans ingest some kind of drug or other for what the user perceives as an improvement in life.

Yeah sure, some side effects may include dizziness, rash, shortness of breath, enlarged or shrunken testicles, but other effects may be euphoria and happiness, absence of certain pain, improved freedom of movement etc. Double-edged sword, eh? ;)
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Her mental health apparently being so bad that she could not manage relative simple self care matters as sleep apnea.
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Maybe she wasn't aware of it. I haven't read anything that says she was.
1. Many people have sleep apnea but don’t know it
Sleep apnea is more common than you think because it often goes undiagnosed, says Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer, DO, MS, Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Sleep Disorders Center. That’s particularly true for the most common form, obstructive sleep apnea, which occurs when your airway gets blocked or constricted while you sleep.

Dr. Foldvary-Schaefer says at least 9 percent of women and 24 percent of men are affected, and those figures are based on older studies done when obesity rates were not as high as they are today.

But out of all those people getting unsatisfying sleep, as many as 80 percent go undiagnosed.

3. It may seem like depression, fatigue or something else
Why is sleep apnea so often overlooked? Because its symptoms are so broad. Beyond sleep disruptions and other bedtime symptoms, you may also have depression, fatigue, trouble concentrating, a dry mouth and sore throat, or any number of other symptoms.

“We have patients diagnosed with depression, but something is just not quite right,” Dr. Foldvary-Schaefer says, as an example. “They don’t respond to treatment for depression, but the depression improves when sleep apnea is diagnosed and treated.”
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https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2015/10/5-surprising-facts-about-sleep-apnea/

One has to be aware of the possibility they have it in order to seek treatment and she easily could have thought it was depression or fatigue. It's not a simple self-care matter either. Though people with mental health issues and drug problems are not always so keen on taking care of themselves when they are suffering symptoms or wrapped up in using, sleep apnea, as I quoted above, is often overlooked.

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/sleepapnea/diagnosis



Her daughter's message about the shame people like her mother dealt with is certainly is a welcome light turned on the problem.
 
Thoreau72 said:
The part you seem to ignore is that drugs ALSO make positive changes in life. That's why the prescription drug business is so lucrative. That's why most humans ingest some kind of drug or other for what the user perceives as an improvement in life.

Yeah sure, some side effects may include dizziness, rash, shortness of breath, enlarged or shrunken testicles, but other effects may be euphoria and happiness, absence of certain pain, improved freedom of movement etc. Double-edged sword, eh? ;)
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You left out rectal bleeding, excessive sweat, dry mouth, inability to safely operate heavy machinery, suicidal thoughts or tendencies, and death.
 
Thoreau72 said:
The part you seem to ignore is that drugs ALSO make positive changes in life. That's why the prescription drug business is so lucrative. That's why most humans ingest some kind of drug or other for what the user perceives as an improvement in life.
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Really? so why is it that there is a huge prescription drug epidemic?
also why can't you stay on topic of what we are discussing instead of introducing irrelevant arguments that have nothing to do with the topic?

Yeah sure, some side effects may include dizziness, rash, shortness of breath, enlarged or shrunken testicles, but other effects may be euphoria and happiness, absence of certain pain, improved freedom of movement etc. Double-edged sword, eh? ;)
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has nothing to do with what we are discussing.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Someone like Carrie Fisher dying of sleep apnea is pure neglect.....if she was that bad she had to know it, and if she died from it she did not take proper measures.
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Honestly that was just a minor cause. her constant drug abuse was a bigger factor.
and did more damage to her.
 
ludin said:
Honestly that was just a minor cause. her constant drug abuse was a bigger factor.
and did more damage to her.
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The Celeb Culture and Victim Culture advocates are sure to not appreciate your refusal to go along with their "She died of Sleep Apnea" story....

Is this even an accepted autopsy cause of death because I did a little look on the web and I am not sure that it is.

Not that we can assume this would matter with a Hollywood coroner.

American corruption being what it is.
 
Fenton said:
Wow, she talked about her prolific cocaine use during Empire and Return of the Jedi

She was just a kid back then
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Decades of heavy drug use do tend to destroy the body...and she was on what 6-7 heavy drugs at time of death...

But let's blame it on sleep apnea...that sounds better right?

Too much thinking for sure....
 
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