Whitney Houston Reportedly Died from Prescription Drug Overdose

Pretty much expected this result.

Unfortunately, I’m not surprised by this cause of death.

Poor lost soul. Sincere condolences to Cissy and Bobbi. This must be a nightmare for them.

I thought the toxicology report wouldn’t be available for at least three weeks?

I assume that if she didn’t drown and the autopsy showed no other reasons, this would be the logical assumption. It likely won’t be final until the report is in.

These people will never learn and think that it won’t happen to them.

I hope this is not true. An accidental drowning fits the narrative of Whitney on the comeback trail a lot better than death by prescription OD. If she was still using, one has to wonder why she was still acting, attending events and allegedly preparing for a tour. Why was she entertaining offers from XFactor? Shouldn’t she have been in rehab? Shouldn’t her friends and family have been saying forget the career for now and get healthy first? Maybe I’m just being naive. Maybe there was just too much money to be made.

Found this:

many hot tub manufacturers recommend never drinking
alcoholic beverages before, during, and/or after soaking in a hot tub.
Alcohol expands your blood vessels and increases your body temperature.
So does your hot tub! The combined effect may raise your body
temperature too much, leading to a stroke or heart attack. It may also
cause dizziness, nausea, and/or lightheadedness leading to
unconsciousness and potential drowning or a slipping accident. This
argument holds true for certain medications/narcotics that raise blood
pressure of body temperature.

It may be possible that the combination of alcohol/prescription drugs + hot bath may have combined to cause Whitney’s death.  :(

So…. just to be clear here… does that mean her death wasn’t accidental? She killed herself????

In a fairy tale world friends and family of Whitney would have been able to “help” her, but in the real world of addiction the only person that can help themselves is themself.  She was doing what most functioning addicts do….she was living her life and trying to hide her dependencies and never owning up to the fact that the drugs were controlling her, not the other way around.  Again, the only person to blame for this inevitable tragedy is Whitney.

And, fuzzywuzzy, my pharmacist always relates to me the issue of baths and prescription drugs that have a tendency to make you drowsy…and, because of my meds, I can no longer tolerate alcohol, at all.  It’s a shame that all the advise in the world can’t stop some people from thinking they are immune to cause and effect.

Not on purpose…she just didn’t want to assimilate the consequences of her actions.  

So…. just to be clear here… does that mean her death wasn’t accidental? She killed herself????

I believe this would be considered an accidental overdose.  

I hope this is not true. An accidental drowning fits the narrative of Whitney on the comeback trail a lot better than death by prescription OD. If she was still using, one has to wonder why she was still acting, attending events and allegedly preparing for a tour. Why was she entertaining offers from XFactor? Shouldn’t she have been in rehab?  

All evidence suggest that Whitney has been an addict for a very long time.  (Making it even more shameful that she could still find doctors willing to write her prescriptions for narcotics!).  I would guess those around her have attempted to get her into rehab many times.  Not a lot they could do about it, if she wasn’t willing to go.  

I also think sometimes people close to addicts will dismiss the dangers if the addiction involves prescription as opposed to illegal drugs.  TV producers and such seem to take the attitude – “hey, can we keep them lucid for the 2 hours of taping?  If so, let’s just go with it.  Who cares that when they get home they’re killing themselves”.

If it was a combination of alcohol/drugs + the hot bath, then it’s possible that it wasn’t intentional, but accidental.  Once they get the toxicology results they will know the levels of drugs and/or alcohol in her system, so they will have more information.  At this point, it appears that there wasn’t enough water in her lungs to conclude that drowning was the cause of death, and there were no signs of physical trauma, so I think that is why they are suggesting that it was an OD.

So they more than likely put Whitney on all of these prescription drugs to help her get off cocaine/crack.  Then she gets addicted to the prescriptions. They never deal with the reason WHY the person is doing drugs, they just give her legal ones. Well, prescription drugs kill more people a year than cocaine does. Go figure.

This doesn’t surprise me really especially after viewing the video of her up on the stage on Thursday and especially since Xanax was found in the room.  It’s just sad.  As far as the toxicology results, they take anywhere from 6-8 weeks to come back.    

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this turns out to be the cause of death, although I would think it was an accidental overdose, not a suicide.

Sounds very similar to Health Ledger.

So she died from the X factor.  Xanax.  Who are these Doctors handing on this crap out????  ahhhhhhhhhhhhh 

From TMZ:

Whitney Houston’s body has been removed from the L.A.
County Morgue in a Coroner’s van and is currently en route to an L.A.
funeral home … TMZ has learned.

We’re told Whitney’s family will now take possession of the body and it will be flown back East by private jet in the next few hours.

The Coroner would not comment on transportation details, but we’ve confirmed the body is in the van seen in the video.

The body should be arriving at the airport by noon Pacific time.

Xanax or any benzodiazepines are not crap…they are a godsend to millions of people who can’t function because of anxiety disorders (which can be totally dibilitating).

I’ve never understood not paying close attention to multiple prescriptions and how they might interact with one another.  Maybe it’s because I’m allergic to so many prescription medicines – but I’m kinda obsessive over what interacts with what.  I used to keep an updated Physicians Desk Reference.  Now I use the internet.  Too many trips to the ER with bad reactions.  Oh – I know Whitney had substance abuse issues….but what about her entourage?  Why didn’t anyone pay attention?  Several prescriptions for Xanax?  Multiple physicians?  Where was the pharmacy in all this?  My insurance company keeps track of all that online.  Red flags go up if I or my doctors make a mistake.  Somewhere, someone dropped the ball here.  Just like with Anna Nicole Smith.  Whitney shouldn’t have had all those prescriptions (if indeed the early reporting is true). 

I never cared at all for Whitney’s music, but I find her death terribly sad.  My heart goes out to her family.

I never cared at all for Whitney’s music, but I find her death terribly sad.  My heart goes out to her family.

I don’t know if I can believe what TMZ is reporting. It seems quite odd to me that the Coroner’s office would tell her family that when they don’t even have the toxicology results nor have they given anything to the Beverly Hills Police investigating the death yet.

The Police have released very few details beyond she died, when, and the circumstances of their being called in.

I just love ‘sources’ and ‘other sources’.

I tend to think her past drug use is most likely a factor. But I’ll wait for the official word. Feels like Amy all over again.

Yeah, its too soon for any coroner to say if it was the water that killed her or the drugs.  It takes weeks to get answers back on these cases e.g. Heath, Michael, Amy, etc… JMO, but that’s just TMZ trying to be inflamatory.  People did the same for Amy, i.e. its more intriguing to say she overdosed.  Kind of boring to say Whit drowned, although it was probably a combination of both.  Pills put her to sleep, then she slid into the tub.  That’s the most logical but I’m no doctor.  I just watch a lot of Castle and crime mysteries.

I think the police said very early on, or at least the usual sites were reporting, that this was not considered either a suicide or any form of ‘foul play.’

I was so hopeful that Whitney was on her way to a real comeback after hearing about “Sparkle.”  Jordin sounded so positive in expressing thoughts about working with Whitney.  Although the great voice may be gone, with today’s engineering of sound, the soundtrack might contain a hit or two on it.  This is all so sad.

I’ve been listening to “I have Nothing” and “I will Always love you” over and over.  Those songs meant so much to me.  I’m pretty devastated by her death. 

“Why didn’t anyone pay attention? Several prescriptions for Xanax? Multiple physicians? Where was the pharmacy in all this?”

I think you’re misreading the article. TMZ is saying that the police found multiple prescription drugs, not multiple prescriptions of Xanax. So far as we know, her Xanax was legally prescribed.

“Why didn’t anyone pay attention? Several prescriptions for Xanax? Multiple physicians? Where was the pharmacy in all this?”

I think you’re misreading the article. TMZ is saying that the police
found multiple prescription drugs, not multiple prescriptions of Xanax.
So far as we know, her Xanax was legally prescribed.

I meant legally.  People die from ingesting legally prescribed drugs all the time.  I was commenting on why a pharmacy wouldn’t catch that a patient was being over-prescribed, or prescribed combinations of drugs that interacted with one another.  I’m not saying that I believe that’s what killed Whitney….just wondering who dropped the ball in all this.  Whitney Huston was a recovering addict.  She needed supervision.  And she damn well didn’t need multiple prescriptions of abusable medications readily to hand (again – if the initial reports are true).

“Yeah, its too soon for any coroner to say if it was the water that killed her or the drugs.”

I don’t know if the TMZ report is true, but the coroner can definitely determine if a person drowned by the amount of water in the lungs.  If the amount of water found was not consistent with drowning, and there were no signs of physical trauma, then I think that’s why an OD is being suspected as the cause of death.

” I was commenting on why a pharmacy wouldn’t catch that a patient was being over-prescribed, or prescribed combinations of drugs that interacted with one another.”

It depends on the state in which she obtained the prescription. Some states don’t have a prescription drug monitoring program, so pharmacists and physicians have no way of knowing what prescriptions have already been filled. Even if she obtained the prescription in a state that has a prescription drug monitoring program, nobody is legally required to check the database. It’s a voluntary thing.