Docs investigated over Heath Ledger's prescriptions
News
-Staff
By Staff
Washington
(ANI):
Two
doctors
are
being
investigated
in
connection
with
the
prescriptions
Heath
Ledger
was
taking
when
he
died
in
January
this
year.
The
US
Drug
Enforcement
Agency
is
probing
who,
and
why,
prescribed
the
combination
of
drugs
that
it
is
believed
to
have
killed
the
Aussie
actor
in
his
sleep.
According
to
reports
in
the
New
York
Daily
news,
Federal
drug
investigators
have
focused
their
attention
on
medics
in
Texas
and
California
who
are
believed
to
have
supplied
the
actor
with
OxyContin
and
Vicodin.
The
paper
says
that
it
is
not
known
whether
the
doctors
prescribed
both
drugs
or
just
one
each
to
the
late
actor.
"It's
an
ongoing
investigation.
It's
not
clear
if
there
was
any
wrongdoing," Usmagazine.com
quoted
a
law
enforcement
source,
as
telling
the
paper.
A
rep
for
the
Drug
Enforcement
Administration
had
revealed
earlier
this
month
that
they
were
launching
an
investigation
into
how
Ledger
got
the
prescription
drugs.
"We're
trying
to
educate
that
legal
drugs
these
prescription
drugs
can
be
just
as
dangerous
as
more
hardcore
drugs
when
misused
or
abused," Steve
Robertson,
a
special
agent
with
the
DEA,
said
at
the
time.