Tom Petty died of an accidental prescription drug overdose, medical examiner said

(picture: Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)An L.A. province medical examiner has ruled which rocker Tom Petty—who died suddenly final October—was killed by an accidental overdose of prescription therapy. Petty's family released a statement on fb today, describing the constant pain he had lived in for the final various months of his life, after insisting on touring despite having suffered an increasingly debilitating hip hurt . (He too suffered from knee troubles & emphysema, according to the post.) Many people who overdose begin by a legitimate hurt or simply don't understand the potency & deadly nature of these medications. He was very proud of which achievement in the days before he passed."


Tom Petty died of accidental drug overdose, medical examiner said

(CNN) Musician Tom Petty died of an accidental drug overdose of various medications, a statement from his family, posted on tompetty.com, & a break news release from the Los Angeles province Medical Examiner says Friday. The family statement, that too was posted on fb, says Petty, 66, had suffered various ailments before his October three death. Tom Petty died October three. "Despite this painful hurt he insisted on saving his commitment to his fans & he toured for 53 dates by a fractured hip &, as he did, it worsened to a further serious hurt . The medical examiner's break news release says the autopsy found these drugs in Petty's system: fentanyl, oxycodone, acetyl fentanyl & despropionyl fentanyl, that are Opium; temazepam & alprazolam, that are sedatives; & citalopram, an antidepressant.

Tom Petty died of accidental drug overdose, medical examiner says

Family: Tom Petty died of an accidental overdose, according to medical examiner

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