Salon has just published a virtually data-free article which blames Heath Ledger's overdose death on busy doctors and pharmacists, and drug company advertising.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 02.07.2008 | Living
It's conceivable that Ledger had an incompetent doctor, but the more parsimonious explanation, given his history of recreational drug use, is that he was not following doctor's orders at all.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 02.06.2008 | Living
Naloxone should be kept in every first aid kit. Even when overdoses involve multiple drugs, simply taking away the effect of the opioid is often all that is needed to revive the victim.
John Lundberg | Posted 02.02.2008 | Living
In the midst of the flurry of publicity--mostly distasteful--surrounding Heath Ledger's death, a humble but fitting poem reentered the national consci...
Naomi Wax | Posted 01.28.2008 | Living
Six different medications in one person's apartment!? It's hardly as scandalous as reporters implied when Heath Ledger's drug inventory was made public.
Taylor Negron | Posted 01.27.2008 | Entertainment
Most of us never met Heath Ledger, but we feel his loss, partly because we bond to talents on the big screen in the same way that we connect to a stranger crying on a public bus or at Starbucks.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 01.27.2008 | Media
Unless you're actually planning to physically beat the living hell out of him, ignoring John Gibson seems to be the best way to deal with his kind.
Huffington Post | Posted 01.27.2008 | Entertainment
Heath Ledger was mourned in a private memorial Saturday in Los Angeles attended by family, friends and former girlfriends. He was found dead in New Yo...
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 01.25.2008 | Living
If I could only impart one lesson about reducing overdose risk, it would be this: Don't take "depressant" drugs -- drugs that make you calm or sleepy -- in combination with each other.
AP | Tom Hays | Posted 01.25.2008 | Entertainment
Update: Ledger's body has been moved from a New York funeral home to an airport and is enroute to Los Angeles, and then probably Perth, for private me...
Huffington Post | Posted 01.25.2008 | Media
UPDATE: John Gibson has "apologized" for his distasteful comments on Heath Ledger's death. Though he first defended his statements on his radio show ...
Huffington Post | Posted 01.24.2008 | Entertainment
There are more new details in the death of Heath Ledger Tuesday afternoon at age 28. Meanwhile, Ledger's parents and sister have revealed their immens...
Chez Pazienza | Posted 01.23.2008 | Entertainment
Fred Phelps isn't the only Fundamentalist Christian who called Heath Ledger a sodomite in the wake of Brokeback Mountain, he's just the only one willing to take his righteous indignation to the next level.
AP | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The death of Heath Ledger prompted the White House to postpone President Bush's event Wednesday promoting an ad campaign aimed at p...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 01.23.2008 | Media
As surmised in my earlier post, People magazine will be the only celebrity weekly to have a cover featuring actor Heath Ledger, whose death was disco...
AP | Tom Hays | Posted 01.23.2008 | Entertainment
The AP reports early Wednesday: An autopsy on Heath Ledger was inconclusive, and more tests are needed, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday,...
236.com | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
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Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 01.23.2008 | Media
Heath Ledger's tragic death was the day's big story — and traditional media outlets could only run to catch up with the Internet.
Danny Zucker | Posted 01.23.2008 | Entertainment
"Heath Ledger dead?" It strikes me as a little weird to feel a sense of loss for a person I've only come to know through the cinema. And yet, I still mourn him.
Huffington Post | Posted 01.22.2008 | Entertainment
"Larry King Live" started out the show with a half hour on Heath Ledger's death. Larry aired "bumps" into his commercial breaks of video clips set to ...
Bonnie Fuller | Posted 01.22.2008 | Entertainment
None of his gifts, neither talent nor family, appears to have been enough to combat the demons that apparently led Heath to take the pills that could have ended his young life.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.22.2008 | Entertainment
TMZ set up a camera streaming live video and audio outside 421 Broome Street in New York, where Heath Ledger was found dead earlier today. As reporte...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea and Katherine Thomson | Posted 01.22.2008 | Entertainment
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Maia Szalavitz | Posted 03.07.2008 | Living