Forensic+Drug+and+Toxicology


 * Case Studies:**

Heath Ledger: Died January 22, 2008, overdose involving a six prescription mix-up of OxyContin, Valium, Restoril, Xanax, Unisom and Hyrdrocodone, tests show that he took the prescribed thearaputic doses or less of each but when the six were mixed it was a deadly mix, he fell asleep and never woke up, when he was first found it was suspected that he had purposely overdosed due to the amount of pill containers around him but a few weeks after the autopsy it was determined that he had taken the right amount of each, the pills were subscribed to him as painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety

Daniel Wayne Smith: son of Anna Nicole Smith, died while visiting his mother in the maternity ward, it is said that he accidently overdosed, he took methadone, lexapro, Zoloft (which weren't prescribed to him), methadone can alter the cardiac rhythm, it is very unusual for this to happen but with the other drugs present it accelerated this reaction