Corey Haim

[fykeylicious 1,099]

via perez:

 

While friends and family gathered to bury Corey Haim in Toronto today, longtime friend and frequent co-star Corey Feldman was noticeably absent from the service.

 

He chose to instead publish this letter to his deceased friend:

 

Dear Corey.,

 

This is for you on the day of your funeral. First off I am so sorry I am not there with you today. By that I mean my physical body is not with your physical body. However you know that my heart is right at your side. You also know the only reason I am truly not there is out of respect for your mother and her wishes to minimize the media attention as much as possible. I want your family to have a calm peaceful day. Hopefully we will not see one shot of the funeral on the news. Just know I am at home today projecting positive energy for you and your passing.

 

I miss you so much already. When I think of something funny I don’t know who to tell it to. I find myself trying to call you but then remember your not there. I think about the new movies we will soon be doing together and then suddenly realise that the dream is over. I always feared this day would come, and often rehearsed how to face it. But once confronted with the reality of it, it’s so much more painful than I could have ever imagined. Nobody will ever understand the brotherhood we shared. Nobody will ever get the inside jokes we told. Nobody will understand the magic of 22/222 . Nobody will ever know how to do the secret Corey handshake. Nobody will ever make me laugh as hard as you did. Nobody will ever make me fight as hard as you did. Nobody will ever challenge me the way you did. Nobody will ever need me the way you did.

 

My mission in life became saving yours. I never gave up, I tried …I walked away, but I always came back, to let you know I was there. In a dark and lonely world with spiteful angry people we always understood each others pain. I have been so hounded by the media and barraged with condolences since your death that I have not been given my own time to grief. I was still in shock while cameras were chasing me down the street looking for my feelings on the matter. When I did Larry King I could barely form sentences, but knew I had to be strong to send a message.

 

I never knew your death would have such a huge impact on the world. I learned something Corey, there are a lot of people out there who really love you, and appreciate the joy you have brough tho their hearts. I only wish you could see the way the world is mourning over your absence. I wish you could see how big the story is. I wish you could see your face finally filling the cover of People magazine and Entertainment Weekly! That would have meant so much to you. It is such a shame they all had to wait until you were gone to give you the respect you were due as an actor which is what you truly were. The great Canadian actor Corey Haim! I love you and I will forever keep that ring close to my heart. I will do my very best to help give you a memorial that is a celebration of your life the way you would have wanted it…..with everybody laughing and rocking out!

 

My heart is so broken and I know there are so many who feel the same way I do. We will remember your spirit and your fans will help me keep your legacy alive.

 

I pray that you are safe and warm and finally filled with peace.

 

I love you

 

CF Core Feldog DAWG C-DOG KID and every other name you used to call me…..dine!

[fykeylicious 1,099]

^good lord, this guy's delusional.

[Maxiemom 623]

^good lord, this guy's delusional.

I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, though I'm not sure this statement needed to be released to the public...much less via Perez.

[akua123 0]

^good lord, this guy's delusional.

I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, though I'm not sure this statement needed to be released to the public...much less via Perez.

 

Yeah, I could understand the point he was trying to make about publicity, but if that was truly the case, shouldn't he have simply sent the letter to the mother? (and it's not like he's Jennifer Aniston or (insert A-list celeb) something - would he have really gotten that much press? (or is he now trying to get more press by saying he doesn't want press. . . )

[sanlee 49]

Arrest made in drug ring investigation connected to death of former child star Corey Haim

 

LOS ANGELES - Authorities have popped one suspect in the criminal pill-pushing ring that funneled "thousands" of prescription drugs to the late actor Corey Haim.

 

"An arrest has been made in connection with the ring. This person is not necessarily connected to Corey Haim," Christine Gasparac, a spokeswoman with the California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Wednesday.

 

Gasparac said Haim obtained "at least one" prescription from the ring.

 

Brown, however, revealed Haim's repeat business during an interview on HLN's "Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell" on Friday.

 

"If he took all the pills that our records show he was prescribed over the last year and three months, he took very damaging assaults on his body," Brown said.

 

Haim's most recent prescription was filled March 5 for Vicodin, he said.

 

"In the weeks before that, more Vicodin, more Valium and other things," Brown said.

 

"If you go back to 2009, you're talking thousands of pills," he said. "You're talking many, many doctors. I doubt if they know about each other. You're talking about many, many pharmacies."

 

Haim, 38, who battled addiction for years and tried rehab, collapsed in his mother's Burbank apartment March 10 and died from what cops initially called an accidental drug overdose.

 

The coroner is awaiting toxicology tests before releasing an official cause of death, but a coroner's official called Haim's mother to say the '80s teen idol had an enlarged heart and water in his lungs during the intital autopsy.

 

Four bottles of prescription medications were found in Haim's room, a coroner spokesman said.

 

Three were for the sedative Valium, the narcotic Vicodin and the muscle relaxant Soma, a source told the Daily News.

 

The fourth prescription was the anti-psychotic drug haloperidol, according to TMZ.com.

 

The prescriptions were thought to be recent from a legitimate doctor, Haim's agent told the News.

 

The illegal drug ring, meanwhile, stole identities from doctors to order official prescription pads, Brown said.

 

"Once they get that prescription pad in the doctor's name, then they can write a prescription, or they can sell it to someone to write a prescription like Corey Haim," Brown said. "Then he can go into the pharmacy and get his legal drugs illegally."

 

ndillon@nydailynews.com

source: http://www.nydailynews.com

[dixiedoodah 1,003]

This is a shame. It looks like in this case (for a change) his primary care doctor was actually doing as much as he could do to help this man. You hear too many stories of Drs giving pills and looking the other way. It really sounds like he was trying to do right by him.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/06/corey....dex.html?hpt=T2

 

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- California's top law enforcement official will reveal details of how he says former child actor Corey Haim got dangerous drugs in the days before his death.

 

Attorney General Jerry Brown called a news conference for Tuesday to discuss "Corey Haim's 'doctor shopping' in the final weeks of his life," Brown's office said.

 

The coroner has not yet ruled on what killed Haim, 38, who died last month after collapsing at the Los Angeles apartment he shared with his mother.

 

Haim obtained drugs using prescriptions written under the names of 20 Los Angeles doctors in the past year, Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ed Winter said last month. The coroner subpoenaed medical records from those doctors, Winter said.

 

Although Haim battled drug addiction for decades, his manager said his death came when Haim "was making major progress" with a program to wean him from pills.

 

Still, Haim sometimes threatened to find other doctors to prescribe him drugs when his primary physician wouldn't give him what he wanted, manager Mark Heaslip said Monday.

 

"I would be the only one who could talk him out of it," Heaslip told CNN Monday night.

 

His doctor was providing pills only in one-day supplies in an effort to wean him, Heaslip said.

 

Haim's primary care doctor would constantly follow up with urgent care centers that he believed were writing prescriptions for Haim, Heaslip said. The doctor later gave the information to investigators, he said.

 

Haim got two powerful drugs from a pharmacy just 11 days before his death, a source with knowledge of the transaction told CNN.

 

Haim had a prescription for the muscle relaxer Soma and the narcotic pain reliever Norco filled at a pharmacy February 26, the source said.

 

Two days after Haim personally picked up the drugs, his primary care doctor called the San Fernando Valley pharmacy to ask about the prescriptions, the source said.

 

The coroner is waiting for toxicology results, expected later this month, before deciding if drugs were involved in the death of the 1980s teen movie actor, Winter said.

 

An autopsy revealed that Haim suffered from pneumonia, an enlarged heart and water in his lungs when he collapsed March 10, Winter said.

 

Heaslip said he and Haim's family are convinced his death was not from a drug overdose, but was perhaps a bad reaction to a single pill he took in the hours before his death.

 

The pills, prescribed by an addiction specialist, came with a warning that it should not be taken by someone with a heart condition or flu-like symptoms, both of which Haim had, Heaslip said.

 

"This kid was making major progress," Heaslip said.

 

His manager said that if Haim was cheating on his addiction program, he would likely not have admitted it to him since he would have dropped Haim as a client.

 

Brown, who is running for governor of California, has been quick to publicize what state drug agents have found as they probe Haim's death.

 

State investigators know that Haim obtained "massive amounts" of legal drugs "in what looks to me like a questionable manner because of so many doctors," Brown said.

 

"How many people go to 10 or 15 or 20 doctors and then run around to 10, 12 and more pharmacies to go fulfill them and sometimes two different doctors in the same day?" Brown asked.

 

Haim began his acting career in 1982 with his first television appearance in 1982 on the Canadian series "The Edison Twins." His first film role was in the 1984 American movie "First Born."

 

Haim also won rave reviews for his title role in the 1986 film "Lucas." Film critic Roger Ebert said of him at the time, "If he continues to act this well, he will never become a half-forgotten child star, but will continue to grow into an important actor."

 

His most famous role was in the 1987 movie "The Lost Boys," in which Haim played a fresh-faced teenager whose brother becomes a vampire.

 

In recent years, the actor was reunited with longtime friend and frequent co-star Corey Feldman in a reality show. "The Two Coreys" ran for two seasons on the A&E Network before it was canceled.

[ElleDriver 0]

AG says Haim obtained 550 pills before death

 

 

 

(04-06) 10:41 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) --

 

The California attorney general says Corey Haim obtained more than 550 prescription pills illegally in the three months before his death.

 

Jerry Brown says Haim obtained the meds, which included Valium and Soma, through seven different doctors. Brown says investigators have talked to the doctors and they appear to have been duped.

 

Haim died March 10 after collapsing in his mother's apartment. The star of 1980s films such as "The Lost Boys" and "License to Drive," Haim struggled with drugs throughout his life. Haim was also suffering from flulike symptoms before his death.

 

Coroner's officials have said they found four prescriptions in Haim's name in the apartment where he collapsed, and all were prescribed by a doctor treating the actor.

[Maxiemom 623]

Serious question here....and feel free to move this to a different forum if need be....but what purpose do any of Jerry Brown's statements serve at this point beyond political grandstanding? Yes, it seems pretty obvious at this point that Corey Haim was doctor shopping with tragic consequences but who other than Corey can really be held accountable for this type of behavior?

 

I am not in the medical or pharmaceutical professions nor am I a resident of CA...just legitimately confused as to why Brown is even "going there" with such voracity.

[princess 1,712]

As I've had to deal with someone with a prescription drug problem, shopping doctors and doctors playing dumb to what's going on - I'm happy people actually talk about it. Not to say Brown isn't clearly grandstanding for votes, but every time these doctors get nailed for being bad doctors I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Jackson, etc. celebs who have doctors that prescribe whatever the patient wants and the patient ends up dead - they should have their licenses revoked, jail time, publicly flogged....

 

What Haim's doctor did is VERY unusual. Only giving him one day supply. Calling other doctors and pharmacies to follow up (never even heard of a dr. doing that before!). You have NO idea how unusual that is. And prescription drug problems are more common than most people think. But wait, a doctor gave it to me so it must be okay!

[Maxiemom 623]

But where do you draw the line between a doctor playing dumb to the possibility of a patient's doctor shopping and the possibility that the doctor was in fact duped? How involved should a doctor and/or the pharmacies be in this regard? At the end of the day, the only common thread is the patient.

 

I agree that it's a good thing that people are talking about this as being a problem. I just have to question the purity of Brown's motives as well what can be done to change the situation.

[princess 1,712]

Totally think Brown's motives are publicity, but I'm okay with that

 

The patient is TOTALLY to blame, on the other hand if the doctor knows what's up and still prescribes whatever the patient wants, not ok. Most of the docs are actually duped, but a simple phone call fixes that (and those types of phone calls I've had to make, they take very seriously even if they don't flat out confirm they know the patient because of confidentiality issues). But some drs continued to prescribe HUGE amounts of pills even knowing the patient was working it. Only came across one of those myself - those are the docs I have a problem with. Just flat out didn't care, wanted the $$ from the patient visits and the kickbacks from the pharmacy company is all I can think of for motive.

 

I've heard that in the past it was usually the pharmacy that caught this kind of behavior and called the docs who issued the prescriptions, but now that patients are hip to that they have multiple pharmacies that they know don't share computer systems.

 

Everyone knows drugs are bad (well, except pot ), but it's shocking how many people really don't know how bad prescription drugs can be. With all the young celeb deaths the last few years, it's become more mainstream knowledge.

 

And the intervention I had to do worked out, even if I was in the dog house for a looooong time

[tyler 408]

AG says Haim obtained 550 pills before death

 

 

 

(04-06) 10:41 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) --

 

The California attorney general says Corey Haim obtained more than 550 prescription pills illegally in the three months before his death.

 

Jerry Brown says Haim obtained the meds, which included Valium and Soma, through seven different doctors. Brown says investigators have talked to the doctors and they appear to have been duped.

 

Haim died March 10 after collapsing in his mother's apartment. The star of 1980s films such as "The Lost Boys" and "License to Drive," Haim struggled with drugs throughout his life. Haim was also suffering from flulike symptoms before his death.

 

Coroner's officials have said they found four prescriptions in Haim's name in the apartment where he collapsed, and all were prescribed by a doctor treating the actor.

I think this story is misleading -- it gives the impression that only one doctor prescribed the medication and that he knowlingly overprescribed the medication. Its my understanding that prescription pads were stolen from various doctors and thats how the medications were obtained; it also does not state over what period of time prior to Haim's death the pills were obtained; or, what kind of pills were obtained (big difference between Motrin 800 mg and Vicodin or oxycondone).

 

It gives the impression that the doctor is solely at fault -- one doctor may be if he overprescribed, but there are not enough facts in this little blurb to support the misleading inference.

 

 

*steps down off soapbox*

[princess 1,712]

Corey Haim Obtained 553 Pills in Weeks Before He Died

By Ken Lee

 

Tuesday April 06, 2010 03:20 PM EDT

people.com

 

In a month leading up to his March 10 death, Corey Haim illegally obtained a massive amount of prescription drugs by "shopping doctors," using fraudulent prescriptions, an alias and giving several medical excuses, the California attorney general said in a press conference Tuesday.

 

In a 32-day period ending just five days before he collapsed in his mother's L.A. apartment, Haim possessed at least 149 tablets of Vicodin, 195 tablets of Valium, 15 tablets of Xanax and 194 tablets of Soma, according to Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, Jr., who called Haim the poster child of prescription drug abuse.

 

Haim, 38, went to seven different doctors and seven different pharmacies to obtain the doses, Brown said. The actor also collected the drugs from emergency rooms and urgent care facilities.

 

The top state prosecutor's office had been investigating a prescription drug crime ring for the past nine months when a fraudulent prescription for OxyContin – that originated from a stolen doctor's pad – turned up in Haim's name.

 

Witnesses told investigators that Haim, who had multiple stints in rehab, had abused drugs since he was 15. In the months before he died, Haim "was preparing to do a media special on how easy it was for him to obtain pain medications," according to the attorney general's statement.

 

Haim's doctors told drug enforcement agents that the child actor was "very convincing" in his request for prescription meds. Although Haim's primary care physician confirmed to investigators that the actor was addicted to prescription meds, he also sought drugs from other doctors, telling them he suffered shoulder pain that occurred while filming a movie in Canada.

 

According to the attorney general's statement, Haim told doctors that he wasn't seeing any other physicians and stated he planned to have surgery. He also told certain doctors he had "depression issues."

 

On March 17, an arrest was made of a suspect tied to the drug ring, and Brown said Tuesday that more arrests were expected. No other celebrity names have turned up in the investigation thus far.

 

Although police mentioned an overdose as a possible cause of Haim's death, the official determination is pending toxicology results.

 

Haim was laid to rest in his hometown of Toronto on March 16.