According to the medical examiner’s office, Ledger took “prescribed therapeutic doses … or less” of each medication he ingested. However, the medications were not meant to be taken together. The cumulative effect was that the actor’s brain stem function that controls breathing was impaired and Ledger “fell asleep and never woke up.”
“It would be inconceivable that one doctor would give one patient all of those medications,” ABC News medical editor Dr. Tim Johnson said.
I hesitate to take 2 Tylenol, so I don’t know how anyone would 6 different medications and think that’s safe.
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