Corey Haim Dies at 38 – Drug Overdose?
It is being reported from a variety of sources including Us Weekly and ABC News that the actor Corey Haim, 38, died early this morning from what appears to be an accidental overdose.
The details of the death of Haim, famous for 1980s movies including “Lucas,” “The Lost Boys” and “License to Drive,” vary from source to source. All agree that Haim was found between 1am and 3am in his apartment by paramedics and he was unresponsive.
Haim has had a long history of drug abuse and addiction and it is assumed that his death was the result of a drug overdose. However, he was reportedly ill before his death and taking over the counter medication, so it is just as lpossible at this point that he succumbed to his illness as died of an overdose. An investigation is ongoing and a toxicology and autopsy report should be revealing.
Police Sgt. William Mann was on the scene. He said that Haim’s cause of death is unknown as of yet: “He could have succumbed to whatever (illness) he had or it could have been drugs. Who knows? He has had a drug problem in the past.”
Foul play is not suspected.
Haim was taken from an apartment in Oakwood apartment complex in Burbank to the hospital by paramedics. The apartment complex is said to be popular among young actors.
It is also being reported by some sources that Haim’s mother was with him when he passed.
Haim was certainly not in denial when it came to acknowledging his long struggle with drug addiction.
In 2004, he told The Sun: “I was working on Lost Boys when I smoked my first joint. I did cocaine for about a year and a half, then it led to crack.”
His drug addiction history continued when he entered drug rehab and was put on prescription drugs, using both stimulants and sedatives.
Haim said: “I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck. But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day.”
Later, in 2007, he told ABC’s “Nightline” that: “I feel like with myself I ruined myself to the point where I wasn’t functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn’t working.”
Haim was a teen heartthrob in the 1980s, but dropped off the map for awhile during the peak of his addiction. He filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1997, but in the past few years he had been working to reestablish his career. He did a reality show with fellow actor Corey Feldman on “The Two Coreys,” which was cancelled after two seasons; Feldman said that Haim’s drug addiction made their working and personal relationship difficult to maintain.
Haim also worked on a few movies that have not yet been released.
Whether or not Haim died of a drug overdose, he never beat drug addiction in his lifetime. He told Larry King in 2007 that he was “a chronic relapser for the rest of my life.
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