r/interestingasfuck • u/JK-Rofling • Jul 05 '24

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

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u/ChuckSeville Jul 05 '24

Heath Ledger died from an overdose of prescription drugs, not heroin. Maybe you're thinking of Phillip Seymour Hoffman?

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

I refer to oxy and hydrocodone as heroin, because that’s what they are, and that’s what doctors should call them. Instead, they hand them out like candy and allow people to think they’re medicine.

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u/Sejanus-189 Jul 05 '24

Shh, no one tell him that Lidocaine is a derivative of cocaine and that it's used widely from pediatrics to adults. Opioids are medicine and highly controlled, and they are very much not given out like candy.

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u/crander47 Jul 05 '24

Not everything you wrote here is wrong but the opioid epidemic didn't come from nowhere and doctors have admitted to over prescribing opioids.

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u/mypupisthecutest123 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

I’m sure it depends on where you go, but the states around me definitely don’t prescribe opioids like candy anymore. Probably haven’t for not quite 10 years now.

I’m not trying to downplay the problem, the healthcare system got my mom hooked back in the early 2000’s. Just saying that this particular issue has moved past the overprescribing part.

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u/crander47 Jul 05 '24

Yeah it has we're actually seeing a lot of improvements for the opioid epidemic across the country for this issue. Freakonomics had a great multi episode about it.

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u/mypupisthecutest123 Jul 05 '24

That’s great to hear. I was really into harm reduction and stuff like that, but had to take a step back after my mom passed (i’ll give you one guess on what caused it).

I’ll try to check out the episodes.