Oh yeah the drug policy rant I was going to go on last night but was too tired to is about the double standard applied to Carrie Fisher
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I guess it's less about drug policy than about how the media talks about drugs
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But like, Heath Ledger was not judged for a very similar death and the reason seems to entirely be that he could have legally obtained >
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> everything that was in his system. (Was anyone ever prosecuted over his death, btw? Did they figure out if he had prescriptions?)
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But in both Ledger and Fisher's case, no chemical was found in sufficient quantities to explain death.
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The coronor attributed Ledger's death to the additive effects of combining multiple opiates and benzos (but none individually in overdose)
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In other words, everything Heath Ledger took was legal at least potentially and he didn't take more than he could reasonably have been told
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It's just that he had way too many central nervous systsm depressants, and a responsible doctor wouldn't have prescribed overlap like that
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I can say from experience it's easy to accumulate supplies of too many sleeping pills from trying and abandoning different ones
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Making it very easy to take too many at once while in deep distress
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I remember having a moment of "I don't even remember how many I've taken" and freaking out and dumping all my pills to avoid accidents
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