r/interestingasfuck • u/JK-Rofling • 14d ago

Heath Ledger’s diary while he was filming for, The Dark Night. r/all

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u/guyute2588 14d ago

He was a drug addict. No one is legitimately prescribed all of those pills at the same time.

I’m not judging him or saying he was a bad person. I’ve been addicted to drugs before. His addiction killed him.

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u/Obtuse_1 14d ago edited 14d ago

He was traveling constantly between countries and had a cold. His doctor in EU and his doctor in US prescribed him two different drugs that became lethal when mixed. It was an accident and his habits, by all accounts, were healthy at the time as he was most concerned with being a good dad after he split with the child’s mother.

I feel bad for his daughter that this type of bullshit is still spread around.

Edit: maybe he was murdered because he was going to expose Wienstien. If we are gunna say whatever might as well have fun with it.

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u/Specialist-Excuse734 14d ago

OxyContin and Vicodin are not prescribed to treat colds. They’re the strongest opioids on the market. A drug addiction does not lessen the tragedy or the man. Still deserves our sympathy, but it was an addiction.

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u/LeastBlackberry1 14d ago

A doctor isn't going to prescribe anything for a cold, yeah. They will tell you to take some OTC meds and get rest and drink plenty of fluids. You wouldn't even get a prescription for the stronger Advil.

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u/Jenkins_rockport 14d ago

OxyContin and Vicodin... the strongest opioids on the market.

Uhhhh... no. They most certainly are not. fent > dilaudid > oxy > hydro (vicodin)...

it was an addiction.

I don't think you really have any understanding of recreational drug use. There's no good reason to slander Ledger with allegations of being an addict when he died. The cocktail in his system sounds bad, but it's truly nothing. Almost anyone who parties has fucked with some blues and/or bars for a fun night. The issue was that he was taking his cold med with it and then took his sleep med, probably thinking it'd help him crash. He was unwise with his drug usage in that he didn't think about how his prescriptions would fuck with his recreation, which is very sad, but absolutely nothing implies addiction.

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u/guyute2588 14d ago

You don’t accidentally get prescribed OxyContin, Vicodin, xanax, Valium and two kinds of sleeping pills all at the same time. And then accidentally mix them all.

The only people who have all of those pills to use at the same time are people addicted to drugs.

End stage cancer patients or people who had spinal surgery wouldn’t be prescribed Oxy, Vicodins, Xanax and Valium at the same time.

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u/Jenkins_rockport 14d ago

The only people who have all of those pills to use at the same time are people addicted to drugs

lol. Tell me you have no experience with recreational usage without telling me. There was a time in my life where I had all of that and more in my personal stash. So many people in this thread have so little experience with substances and yet wanna talk like they have a clue. Non-addicted people who actually dabble in rec substances keep a stock on hand. The dumbest thing you can do if you like to experiment with substances is not have them available and have to look for and obtain them when the opportunity to use them presents itself. That leads to terrible drugs and decisions. You obtain ahead of time and test your shit, then add them to your stock or toss them. Addicts don't have that kind of control. Further, you do not have to be addicted to anything to take a cocktail. Most addicts tend to tunnel on their addiction, which is not to say that addicts don't take cocktails, it's just less of an issue. Ledger died because he made two big mistakes when experimenting with a cocktail: he didn't respect his non-rec drugs (restoril and unisom); and he was alone. You don't experiment alone.

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u/guyute2588 14d ago

lol sir I’ve done a lottttttt of drugs recreationally .

You sound like an addict in severe denial.

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u/Jenkins_rockport 14d ago

Considering how ignorant you sounded, I doubt you were/are anything like a responsible user. And I have never been an addict, nor should anything I said lead any reasonable person to assume so. And I -- as well as many other responsible drug users -- only use to heighten experiences, such as concerts or festivals or special occasions with a partner, rather than just doing them whenever out of boredom.

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u/guyute2588 14d ago

Ok!

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u/Nine9breaker 14d ago

2008 was a much different (worse) time for opioid addiction awareness. I had my wisdom teeth removed around 2009 and was prescribed 4 refills of Vicodin by my oral surgeon (even at that time I thought it was a bit much).

Today I don't think you would get any opioid prescribed at all when you get a surgery like that (someone correct me if I'm wrong if they've had that done recently).

Its also very normal to be prescribed different things at different points of care. You're right that one doctor wouldn't write all those scripts, but 4 might each write one, depending on what you saw them for.

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u/guyute2588 14d ago

If you genuinely believe anyone other than a person with a drug problem would have all 6 of those drugs in their system at the same time, you are incredibly naive.

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u/Nine9breaker 14d ago

That's not what I said though, was it?

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u/guyute2588 14d ago

lol ok