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Tom Petty's Autopsy: Singer Died From Massive Accidental Drug Overdose
TMZ ^ | Jan. 19, 2018

Posted on 1/20/2018, 12:56:40 AM by Wolfie

Tom Petty's Autopsy: Singer Died From Massive Accidental Drug Overdose

Tom Petty's autopsy results are in, and they show the singer died from an accidental drug overdose as a result of taking a variety of medications.

The L.A. County Coroner says a number of Tom's organs failed due to "mixed drug toxicity."

Tom's autopsy report shows the singer was on several pain meds, including Fentanyl patches, oxycodone (Oxycontin), temazepam (Restoril), alprazolam (Xanax), citalopram (Celexa), acetyl fentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl. The reason doctors prescribed the meds was because of a number of medical problems, including emphysema, knee problems and a fractured hip.

The family says the linchpin to Tom's demise was the fractured hip. He insisted on touring for 53 concert dates with the condition, which worsened over time and caused him to take the meds. On the date he had the heart attack he was told his hip had graduated to a full-on break that made the pain unbearable and may have caused the overuse of meds.

The autopsy says Petty suffered from coronary artery atherosclerosis.

As we reported ... Tom's official death certificate left his cause of death as "deferred," leaving it as a mystery until now.

We broke the story ... Tom went into full cardiac arrest before being taken to a hospital in L.A. He eventually died when his family took him off life support.

Fentanyl was also linked to the deaths of Prince and Lil Peep.

Tom was 66.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: addiction; druggie; junkie; justsayno; lifechoices; opioids; petty
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1 posted on 1/20/2018, 12:56:40 AM by Wolfie
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To: Wolfie

Fentanyl? Did he have cancer?


2 posted on 1/20/2018, 12:58:07 AM by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

the singer was on several pain meds, including Fentanyl patches, oxycodone (Oxycontin), temazepam (Restoril), alprazolam (Xanax), citalopram (Celexa), acetyl fentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl.

Enough to kill anyone.


3 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:00:33 AM by MarvinStinson
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To: Wolfie
That guy could have opened a drug store. No they weren't for a medical condition. They were his happy pills. No competent physician would prescribe that toxic cocktail.
 
4 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:01:39 AM by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: nickcarraway

No, he had pain. A lot of pain. That is what fentanyl is used for.


5 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:02:14 AM by BipolarBob (At one time I held the world record as the worlds youngest person on the planet.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Prince mixed close to the same cocktail.


6 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:02:53 AM by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: BipolarBob

And what result did it get?


7 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:04:20 AM by MarvinStinson
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To: Wolfie
...the singer was on several pain meds, including Fentanyl patches, oxycodone (Oxycontin), temazepam (Restoril), alprazolam (Xanax), citalopram (Celexa), acetyl fentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl.

The Whitman's Sampler of opioids.

8 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:05:29 AM by Flick Lives (https://goo.gl/GxGKQh)
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To: BipolarBob

Surgery is what u do to correct knee and hip problems.
Pain pills was not the solution.

He was loaded with cocktails.


9 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:05:47 AM by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Did you read the statement from his family or do you just prefer to make ill-informed insensitive remarks?

Go after Big Pharma, who are making billions off of the opioid epidemic, or the doctor who prescribed way too many pills...but try showing a little compassion for a family who is hurting!


10 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:09:47 AM by VikingMom (I may not know what the future holds but I know Who holds the future!)
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To: nickcarraway

Fentanyl? Did he have cancer?


No, he was an addict.


11 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:09:55 AM by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“No competent physician would prescribe that toxic cocktail.”

Considering what I have to do to get one pill a day out of the VA, I can believe that.


12 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:10:10 AM by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Wolfie
He insisted on touring for 53 concert dates with the condition, which worsened over time and caused him to take the meds.

I saw him play a month before he died, great show. He had to postpone it a week due to laryngitis from a cold. I heard he had arthritis, but no idea it was that bad. A trooper to the end, but so sad.

13 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:10:43 AM by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: BipolarBob

`pain is completely subjective...


14 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:12:52 AM by cherry
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To: Wolfie
Xanax is the key. You put Xanax into that heavy op mix, that's the one that tells the brain: "Hey even though you're not breathing, it's cool."

You take Xanax away it's still too heavy for a wirey guy who should have had a 'body man' or personal valet. Narcan probably would have brought him back if he had a body man who knew wtf he was doing.

15 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:15:39 AM by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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To: Wolfie

RIP Tom. Loved your music.


16 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:15:43 AM by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Hugin

Sounds like he was literally willing to risk his life to squeeze out one last tour.


17 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:18:22 AM by dfwgator
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To: txhurl

Actor Heath Ledger also.

Opiates and benzodiazepines.


18 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:25:32 AM by MarvinStinson
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To: Wolfie

Last Dance with Mary Jane
One more time to ease the pain

- Live by the sword......

By the sewer I lived
By the sewer I died
They said it was murder
But it was sewer side


19 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:27:00 AM by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: smileyface

Are you the same idiot that diagnosed Trump with mental problems with ever having met him, or a different idiot?


20 posted on 1/20/2018, 1:27:37 AM by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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