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Coroner: Houston drowned after cocaine use
Whitney Houston died from an accidental drowning in a hotel bathtub, but the "effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use" were contributing factors in her death, the Los Angeles County Coroner said in an autopsy report released Thursday.
Houston, 48, was "found submerged in bathtub filled with water" and "no trauma or foul play is suspected," the coroner said.
The toxicology tests found other drugs in her body, including marijuana, the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, the muscle relaxant Flexeril and the allergy medicine Benadryl, the report said. But these drugs "did not contribute to the death," it said.
The final coroner report is expected to be made public within two weeks, the coroner said.
Houston died February 11 in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the day before the music industry gathered for the annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
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Before all of the stupid comments start, you do not have the actual toxicology report. If you've never read one, or are unfamiliar with basic toxicology terminology, acquaint yourself before you go off all unhinged. "Depending on liver and kidney function, cocaine metabolites are detectable in urine. Benzoylecgonine can be detected in urine within four hours after cocaine intake and remains detectable in concentrations greater than 150 ng/mL typically for up to eight days after cocaine is used." Since likely only her family will have access to the toxicology report, we will never know the amount or when. But it doesn't matter. An enormous talent is gone. She had her challenges like a lot of Americans. But no amount of hateful, stupid comments by people who didn't have one ounce of the talent she had, will ever take anything away from her. RIP, Ms. Houston.
well said...
thanks Doc, so glad you are taking care of that for us illiterates, what would we do without you and your great wisdom..
well said!!!
but the rude funny comments sure made me laugh more than your downer know-it-all of a comment did. LOL
cocaine use...shocking
Shocker! Wow...who saw that coming?
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I get the feeling that the coroner, or someone, was trying to put the best description of the cause of death forward by minimizing the cocaine. Thank goodness that marijuana was listed as not a contributor to her death....whew.
Only idiots get all loaded up on coke, Xanax, Benadryl and Flexeril and then dive into a tub filled with hot water.
She said it herself, crack is whack. RIP Whitney.
She was know as a crack wh**e here in Attleboro MA.....She lived here with Bobby Brown and everybody knew what she was doing. This was no shocker around here, thats for sure.
sad....Rip Whitney Elizabeth Houston
Whew, good thing it wasnt crack!. That woulda looked bad...
Crack is Wack!
So she drowned after having a heart attack brought on by recent and years of cocaine abuse, introduced to her by Bobby Brown.
There you have it–Bobby Brown is to blame!!!
Looks like you are delusional, Yakobi. She was a grown woman with choices and she wasn't forced to stay with Bobby, now was she? Put the blame where it really belongs.....WHITENEY HOUSTON.
God bless you.
So, like she last had contact with reality three years ago or so? Did she take anything orally besides drugs?
So John and Ken were actually right to call her a Crack Ho?
Normally that is just called what it is, Suicide.