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Silicon Valley's favorite drug helped kill Heath Ledger

By Nicholas Carlson, 12:20 PM on Wed Feb 6 2008, 1,690 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Medical examiners have released results of Heath Ledger's toxicology report earlier today. The young star died of an accidental overdose — an "acute intoxication" — from the combined effects of hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, doxylamine and oxycodone. The latter is the active substance in Silicon Valley's drug of choice, OxyContin.

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