Corey Haim’s Death My Legal Means And Echoes Of Jackson, Gans And Murphy
THE autopsy and toxicological test results on Corey Haim are not yet in, but already the death of the former child star is being attributed to prescription drugs and mentioned in the same breath as that of the Las Vegas Strip superstar Danny Gans.
California’s Attorney General Jerry Brown has linked Haim to an “illegal and massive prescription-drug ring” and says his office is investigating “an unauthorized prescription under the former child star’s name that was found during an ongoing investigation of fraudulent prescription-drug pads ordered from a vendor in San Diego.”
Brown said:
“Corey Haim’s death is yet another tragedy linked to the growing problem of prescription-drug abuse. This problem is increasingly linked to criminal organizations, like the illegal and massive prescription-drug ring under investigation.”
Haim, of course, is only the latest celebrity prescription drug-related death in the time since Gans died suddenly at the age of 52 due to an overdose of Dilaudid. Michael Jackson and Brittany Murphy’s prescription-related demises contributed to Brown’s interest in the prescription racket. Those deaths, however, were scrutinized and investigated by a responsible media as well as law enforcement officials.
The death of the Born Again family man Danny Gans has gone unexamined by a beholden news media in Las Vegas, where, according to local news nabob and New York Times stringer Steve Friess, “when left to our own devices, we do things a little differently.”
It has been reported that Gans did not have a prescription for the drug that led to his death, and that he was an owner of a pharmacy supply house.
There has been no investigation into either aspect of his life or death, and one would suspect that an honest investigation and accounting into the details of the pain and struggles of Gans’ life and circumstances of his death would set him apart from the show business losers and freaks that timing and similarity have linked him so unfortunately – TB
Posted: 14th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
