It takes longer if it's not on TV.
Forty days after the death of long-time Las Vegas headliner Danny Gans, the coroner's report was made public. The beloved (read "monstrously high grossing") impressionist Gans died because of toxic levels of hydromorphone — best known as Dilaudid — in conjunction with other medical conditions. The coroner termed it an accidental death with no indication of drug abuse.
One pain control specialist interviewed by the Las Vegas Sun said: "The bottom line is the guy died of an overdose." Another doctor stated: "Either he took more than was prescribed, in which case it’s an accidental overdose, or it was prescribed in an inappropriate dose, and that makes it potential malpractice.”
Neither is rare in Las Vegas, where ads for tort lawyers blare from every TV channel every hour of every day... And more deaths are associated with prescription drugs — at least 258 in 2007 — than street drugs or automobile crashes. The rate of fatal prescription drug overdoses more than doubled between 1998 and 2007.
Article: Las Vegas Sun, June 11th.
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