Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Legal Prescription Drugs Killed Brokeback Mountain Star Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger's death has been ruled an accidental overdose of legal prescription drugs. He father believes it should serve as a wake up call.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The father of Hollywood actor Heath Ledger is asking Americans to pay closer attention to the use of prescription drugs in the wake of a coroner's confirmation that the Brokeback Mountain star lost his life to an accidental overdose.

It is a truly desperate picture that we face as a society that attacks the use of natural medical treatments like medical marijuana, even going so far as to demonize the people who use it to seek relief from sickness and disease, while adopting and allowing slick potions hatched in dollar-driven laboratories to choke the life out of people.

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Source: Salem News