Coroner: Corey Haim Didn't Die From Drugs
According to the L.A. coroner, '80s star Corey Haim died from natural causes.
May 4, 2010— -- Drugs were not a factor in the death of actor Corey Haim.
According to a reporter from the Los Angeles county coroner's office released today, the 1980s heartthrob died of natural causes from a combination of pneumonia and respiratory and heart trouble.
The coroner's report follows California Attorney General Jerry Brown's declaration last month that Haim obtained more than 550 prescription pills illegally from numerous doctors in the months before his death.
Haim, 38, obtained prescriptions from seven different doctors who claim they were duped into writing scripts for the troubled actor. Brown said the late actor was a "poster child" for prescription drug abuse and had been "doctor shopping" for pills. The drugs included Valium and Xanax and Vicodin, according to Brown.
Haim had been working to get clean from prescription drugs in the weeks before he died, according to his agent, but his plea for help may have been no match for the dozens of prescriptions he had allegedly obtained from a cadre of doctors and other sources.
Haim died after collapsing in front of his mother at her L.A. apartment on March 10. According to People Magazine, Haim's mother told the L.A. Coroner that her son suffered pulmonary congestion. In an interview with Access Hollywood, Judy Haim said that the autopsy also found he had an enlarged heart along with the water in the lungs.
Haim's agent said his client had been working on his addiction problems with a doctor and that Haim told him two weeks before he died that he was drug-free.
But the agent also said Haim's mother told him that an addiction specialist treating her son had given him four drugs and, she believed, a reaction to the medications may have caused his death.
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