From Anna Nicole Smith, to Adam Goldstein (aka DJ AM), Chris Farley to Heath Ledger, Rick James to Michael Jackson, the number of entertainers dead due to drug overdose is long and lengthy.  And this past week, there was yet another addition to this infamous list—Brittany Murphy, who died at the absurdly young age of 32.

Brittany Murphy was a multifaceted actor.  Good looking enough to be a Playboy centerfold if she wanted, talented enough to appear in over 55 movies and television programs, and a voice that landed her on the top charts of Billboard, Murphy was all of this and more.  Yet five days before Christmas, the world lost this singular talent, all signs pointing toward a drug overdose.

According to multiple reports, Murphy was on numerous prescription pills prior to her untimely death:  Anti-anxiety pills like Klonopin, anti-depressants like Fluoxetine, pain killers like Hydrocodone and migraine medications like Propranolol made up less than half of the pills officials discovered in her bedroom Dec. 20th.

Now, there’s no question that people use prescription drugs without dying from them, but the overuse of these drugs seems to becoming more and more common place.  And it’s this overuse that should concern all of us.

As Mike Adams of Natural News said in a recent article, prescription medications offer quick fixes.  And people want “quick fixes.”  Have a headache?  There’s a pill for that.  Feeling blue?  There’s a pill for that.  Stressed out?  There’s a pill for that, too.

So when you have a lot of money and can afford to spend hundreds of dollars on these quick fixes, why not do it, right?

I’ll tell you why that’s wrong:  Because the side effects are deadly.  Ask any doctor and they’ll tell you the same.

Two such doctors are Dr. Julie Holland and Dr. Mark Siegel.  Dr. Holland and Siegel work for NYU School of Medicine and NYU Lagone Medical Center, respectively.  In an interview with FoxNews.com, the doctors ran down the laundry list of medications that Murphy took and how the combination of these drugs likely contributed to her demise.

Said Holland:  “If you take these two anti-anxiety medications (i.e. Klonopin and Antivan, two meds that Murphy was prescribed prior to her death), and another ‘downer’ like alcohol, you can absolutely die [emphasis added].”

Holland went on to say that the pain killers Murphy was taking (i.e. Hydrocodone and Vicoprofen) can cause someone to stop breathing.

Again, the official cause of Murphy’s death has not yet been confirmed, but you have two medically trained doctors saying that the combination of these drugs likely contributed to it (if not caused it).

The question becomes, then:  If doctors know that these kinds of drugs can inflict so much harm, why on earth would they prescribe them?

In this case, and in other cases where entertainers have overdosed, Holland believes it’s a function of something called polypharmacy:  Where an individual is getting prescribed drugs from multiple doctors without the prescribing doctors knowing about the other doctor(s).  It’s a classic case of the right hand not talking to the left.

If Murphy was trying to kill herself, then there’s really nothing that could have been done to prevent this.  But if this was an honest mistake—the mistaking being the doctors not communicating or Murphy not knowing the side effects of what she was taking—then this is a real tragedy.  It’s a tragedy because her death could have been prevented, because all the things Murphy was suffering from (e.g. depression, anxiety, migraines) can be treated all-naturally.  Not just treated, either—treated effectively!

The death of Brittany Murphy illustrates why I’ve devoted my life to all-natural healing.  Prescribed medications have worked for many, many people, but all too often, the side effects outweigh the rewards.

That’s never the case with all-natural medicine.  The treatments work and they never carry side effects.

If more entertainers with the name recognition of Brittany Murphy glommed on to this fact, more people would join the all-natural revolution.  Until that happens, all we can do is hope that people will stop masking their mental health problems by popping a pill, and start relieving their health problems by educating themselves.

They can start here.

Sources
foxnews.com
naturalnews.com
huffingtonpost.com