Why did the Coroner decide that Pneumonia, not drugs, caused Corey Haims death?”
Coroner: Pneumonia, not drugs, caused Haim’s death By ROBERT JABLON (AP) LOS ANGELES — Actor Corey Haim had traces of several prescription and over-the-counter drugs in his system when he died two months ago, but that’s not what killed him, the Los Angeles County coroner concluded. Haim, 38, died of natural causes from pneumonia that damaged his lungs, according to an autopsy report released Tuesday. The pneumonia was complicated by an enlarged heart and narrowed blood vessels, the report said. Low levels of eight drugs, including a prescription muscle relaxant, were found in Haim’s system along with marijuana, coroner’s spokesman Craig Harvey said. “But nothing was at a level that would have contributed to his death,” Harvey said. The drugs in his system also included the antidepressants fluoxetine and olanzapine; the tranquilizers diazepam and meprobamate, which are found in Valium and other medications; the cough-suppressant dextromethorphan; and the antihistamine diphenhydramine. H
Was there a rush to judgment in the case of Corey Haim, the former teen star who was found dead at age 38 in March? Hours after his death, Los Angeles Police Department officials told reporters that Haim, who had a history of drug abuse, appeared to have died of an “accidental overdose.” http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef012876a7e31e970c-320wiThen, Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown publicly called Haim “the poster child” of the problem of prescription drug abuse. The attorney general said his investigators found evidence that Haim received drugs from an illegal prescription mill, and then revealed that the actor was “doctor shopping” for medications in the weeks before his death. But a coroner’s report released Tuesday found that drugs did not play a role in Haim’s death. Rather, he died of respiratory distress related to pneumonia with the presence of an enlarged heart
