The death of 38-year-old former teen star Corey Haim may be linked to an illegal prescription drug ring, authorities said on Friday. “We know there was a prescription pad stolen and there was a prescription written for [Haim] using that pad, so it was fraudulent and we know it was filled,” Christine Gasparac, a spokeswoman for California Attorney General Jerry Brown, told People. The L.A. coroner had indicated that four prescription drug bottles were found at Haim’s home; his death Wednesday was described as an apparent overdose.
Brown indicated to the L.A. Times that the prescriptions in Haim’s name turned up in an ongoing investigation by the state of California into fraudulent prescription drug pads. The ring apparently operates by using stolen doctor identities to order prescription pads from authorized vendors, then selling those prescription forms to addicts or dealers. “Corey Haim’s death is yet another tragedy linked to the growing problem of prescription drug abuse,” Brown told the Times.
Ahhh yes….it was everyones fault BUT his.
Guess the rules just didn’t apply to him–just as with Tiger Woods, just because he was so “special”.
Don’t troll a thread about someone’s death. Really, now. Do you know ANYTHING about being addicted to prescription drugs? Do you? I’d opt for the “no” answer in your case. Of course it is “his fault”, but prescription drug addiction is a serious thing. It isn’t a matter of just quitting’ because things aren’t that easy sometimes. I’ve had people to die because of prescription drug abuse, and I know pillpoppers to this day, but it isn’t always about ‘blame’ A person is dead, and it should have never happened.
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Totally agree!! with Cleo
Where do you get a corrallation between a sick drug addict tht would do anything to get ‘His’ drug of choice’ through illegal means and die from it, to a famous golfer who got caught cheating on his wife!? Both would eventually come out, but one was leathal! You’re sad in your analogy, my friend–two different catagories! Wise-Up!
The better analogy would be to compare it to Michael Jackson, who paid whomever was unscrupulous enough to do whatever a superstar with money wanted them to do.
Huh? The story in no way relieves Haim of any responsibility for drug abuse. It just stated that he was involved in or the recipient of illegal drug prescriptions. How you can read that as absolving him of blame is beyond me. If anything, it makes him even more responsible because he resorted to illegal means to obtain a prescription. Try learning to read and think before you speak.
Agreed, I thought the same thing when I read the first post. This article in no way was absolving his part in his death. I was so very sad to hear about Corey Haim’s death…RIP. He was a huge part of my teenage years!
Well said JMB
Don’t judge too quickly the person addicted to mind-altering substances from your moral high ground. Mind-altering substance use is too complicated for morality’s simplicity. Those never having experienced the gravity of addiction lack any understanding of its power and have no right to render judgment.
=>PW
He is responsible for his actions and as long as there are humans walking on this earth and can speak our minds we are going to have an opinion … Lesson is *** DON’T EVER START USING DRUGS *** GET A LIFE !!!!
Hope you never hurt your back and are prescribed Oxy. That’s the way a lot of pill poppers start, you know. But not you! You are mighty and above addiction!
Ditto….Couldn’t have said it better PW
very well said pW
Peter
I can easily take a moral standpoint because I never chose to do drugs like those. Haim is the one who, with a clear mind, intentionally started taking the drugs that over took him. At that point, he had the right to say NO and that is where our judgment lies. He also had many opportunities to recover and then also chose not to. Haim, and Haim alone is responsible for his actions and eventual death. There is no cutting the corners on that fact.
And as for me never “experiencing” the gravity of addiction, I was a smoker which has its own addiction. I chose to quit one day and I did. I was a matter of willpower. You have to want to. Haim did not want to quit. HE is responsible for that as well.
Golly gee whiz Shaun, it must be wonderful to be so perfect. Don’t forget us little people when you are elected the new Jesus!
Quitting using drugs isn’t something many people can just WILL to do. It requires a lot of help. The problem is that doctors are too often unwilling to help these people. If people are addicted, stopping them cold turkey doesn’t always work. For some, it does. For others, they need to be weaned off which can take years. Read up on people who try to get off narcotics, ambien, anti anxiety meds, depression meds or any of those other mind alternating drugs. When your outlook on life is bleak and you feel depressed and desolate everyday, drugs like that can make you feel good and happy. Going off them often causes people to want to commit suicide or have other issues. Doctors REALLY need to start having a more active role in helping these people wean off these drugs and in the meantime introduce alternative therapies. Get the patient involved in other things…books, movies, art, an addicts group that goes out often, anything. Drug addicts usually don’t feel they have a problem but they also do withdraw from society because they don’t want to interact with other people. Getting them out of that depressing aloneness and getting them into something else while also helping to wean them is what needs to happen. If the drug abuse programs out there haven’t been working these many many decades, why are they still being used? Why aren’t they being changed? So easy of all of you to judge others.
Jay
I never claimed to be perfect but I take responsibility for my mistakes. That is something this world need to learn how to do. We have become a tolerant world which has led to nothing but corruption of power and the degredation of general society. Open your eyes and take a look around.. The world is falling apart underneath everyone and no one is smart enough to see it.
Brandy the topic here is not general drug addicts. We are speaking more specifically of Corey Haim who with his acting career had enough money to seek and pay for the required personalized help.. He chose not to.. What is so hard to see about that?
There are plenty of other people, actors too,who get on with their life without the use of prescription or illegal drugs. If it were the drugs fault, everyone would be addicted to something. We can sit around and place blame on everything else in our lives, but until you take control of your life nothing good will come from it.
Shaun, Corey Haim was basically broke. He didn’t have the money and this has everything to do with drug addiction. Instead of just reading this single story, look at the others of before his death and even after where it says Corey was a drug addict and Corey Feldmann was trying to help him get clean.
Morality is never simple.
Shaun and JMB have it right. Jays comment about being perfect is usually one that people make when they’re on the defensive. Again, all that was said was that Corey is responsible for his drug use. How is that implying someone is perfect? PWs comment wasn’t well said. PW made a comment try to SOUND intelligent, that’s all. There are a lot of people in messed up situations that choose to not do drugs and to better themselves instead of take the bad way out. Corey Haim chose to do drugs, no one forced it on him. It’s sad that he died but just because someone dies, doesn’t mean you have to pitty the person and justify their actions.
Everybody IS addicted to something. Be it food, drugs, cigarettes, booze, sex, shopping, the internet, crackberries etc… It is up to the individual to determine the value they put into themselves. Unfortunately some people feel valueless and that leads to their downfall. It is all about gaining control and (corny as it may sound) loving yourself.
Well put I.D., I’ve been thru 49 surgeries and yes I’m now addicted to RX Drugs. Anyone got a problem with that ?????
Just wonderful. You know the people who suffer real pain and actually need relief while finding alternative ways to deal are going to be the ones who are going to get screwed by all this. Doctors already under prescribe pain meds for those who really do need them because of stuff like this. Makes me pissed off.
In the meantime, I take the max amount of Tylenol a day just to have some smidgen of pain relief while killing my liver in the process. YAY. Thank you drug addicts everywhere. Thank you DEA for your scare tactics towards legit doctors and folks in pain. And thank you doctors for not growing a pair and instead taking the easy way out by prescribing nothing. But alas, people who really want will do it the illegal way and get whatever they want. I mean, look at all these people who do coke or meth. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Doctors and the DEA should be fined every time punished for all the illegal drug activities because they push off people in pain who eventually turn into junkies. I don’t know Corey personally so I have no idea if he had any pain issues but he obviously used these drugs to escape reality and most likely because doctors were unwilling to help him because his previous abuse. What a wonderful world we live in.
Nice way to circumvent blame to the rest of the world. Take some responsibility for yourself. Pain is a way of the body telling you something is wrong. Get it fixed. I suffer chronic pain but take no meds because it is not that painful. I dont believe there is a ordinary pain where someone needs constant pain meds like you say.
If you don’t think there is pain that requires constant pain medicine, then I am glad you are so healthy. I suffer from Type I diabetes and pancreatitis and without my daily meds, I cannot function. If I could not function, I could not work and care for my family. I am thankful for my doctor who understands the power of pain in the body and helps me work to manage it. I am never pain-free, but at a level I can stand and still work and live.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown is an idiot. Prescription drug abuse is his fault, the DEA’s fault and every doctor’s fault. Get it through your head Jerry, the war on drugs doesn’t work. Your only solution is to arrest people. You don’t work on real therapy and prevention.
Gee, I wonder if my EX-friend and her moron drug-dealer brother were the ones he bought the prescrip pads off of? Everybody in L.A. knows the way to make money is drive to T.J., buy hillbilly heroin from the pharmecias and then drive back and sell it. If the DEA ever shuts it down, half the people from San Diego to Orange will miss a house payment.
Shaun, you in for a rude awakening then if you do not realize how many people use and abuse drugs in this country. You don’t have to look like a junky. I don’t know any actors or actresses but I know common everyday folk. Some of the most prim and proper women and men I would have never though did anything bad were major druggies. As they say, don’t judge a book by its cover. I have a friend who is a coke head. You’d never know by just looking at her. I choose not to hang out with her unless it’s one of her family gatherings. I don’t want part of that. Our family friend’s son who was straight A’s and totally involved in sports was involved in meth. One bad incident and the kids now in a vegetative state. Brother’s best friend’s brother looked totally clean and a good kid. Met him once at our house when I was in grade school. Next weekend we found out he died from cocaine overdose. Back in high school, my brother’s girlfriend’s brother was inhaling butane and his lungs collapsed and he died. Girl I knew in grade school moved to the next town. Found out she died by reading the news paper. She was huffing and someone lit a cigarette and because of the chemicals on her, she became a ball of flames and was killed.
Brandy, you should be on the show 1000 ways to die. =) Anyway, you are right that a lot of people don’t look like it and are totally f’d up. That’s why when something happens to someone, and people make comments like “why do bad things happen to good people”, I tell them how do you know they were a good person. We never know what people have gone through, their pasts, or whats actually going on in that melon of theirs.
Prescription drugs are an epidemic nationally. Oprah has helped one actress avoid going down the same path as Corey, MJ, Heath and many others.
http://www.youtube.com/user/malibubeachrecoveryc#p/a/u/1/NUDz8X_f6UQ
Yes ,I said I was addicted to RX Drugs. After going thru 49 surgeries & being in the Hospital for months at a time , strapped to a bag of demerol & a morphine pump, it does not stop the pain when u check out of the Hospital, your misery has just started. So all of you Bible thumpin’ , holier than thou S.O.B.’s can kiss my Rebel ass , and try to understand ,not undermine!!!!!!!!!
Shouldn’t assume a judgemental person is a “Bible thumper.” Some are not at all religious. Take care and best wishes to you conquering your med addiction.
A junkie is a junkie. Stop giving power to hollywood types. At the end of the day who gives a damn?
I agree. All these crocodile tears now that he croaked. Pfft.
(((Why))) should everyone buy his useless junk (possessions from his broke-ass SoCal apt.) if he was just a common junkie JUST to pay for his funeral??? Just cremate him and be done w/ it… and a $100 cremation bill to boot. Why, because Jews don’t believe in cremation? N * * * ER, please! He _never_ lived like a devout Jew when he was alive.
I’m not judging him, and I certainly sympathize with people suffering from addiction. I simply wish people would freaking learn to read and not simply use some story as an excuse to get on their moral high horse about Hollywood or whatever. It’s sad that he’s dead, because it’s sad whenever anyone dies like this at such a young age, famous or not. It’s sad that he felt so badly that he resorted to drugs. It’s sad that he couldn’t get clean and stay clean. But spare me the notion that a news story somehow points a finger when it clearly doesn’t.