Cocaine performed a job within the June death of TV pitchman Billy Mays, an autopsy document reveals.
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According to the Associated Press, officials introduced Friday that the OxiClean spokesperson — who passed on to the great beyond after suffering a heart assault in his sleep on June 27 — had closing used the drug days earlier than his death.
The Hillsborough County clinical examiner's office said that although 50-year-old father of two died from hypertensive heart illness, cocaine use used to be a contributing reason for death.
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(At the time of his death, medical examiner Vernard Adams said Mays was once taking the prescription painkillers Tramadol and hydrocodone for hip pain, but there was no indication of drug abuse.)
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Mays' spouse Deborah, alternatively, known as such conclusions "speculative" in a remark launched Friday.
"We are extremely disappointed by the press release released by the Hillsborough County medical examiner's office," she mentioned in the remark. "We believe it contains speculative conclusions that are frankly unnecessary and tend to obscure the conclusion that Billy suffered from chronic, untreated hypertension, which only demonstrates how important it is to regularly monitor one's health."
She added: "Given the hectic nature and pace of Billy's life, especially during the past 10 months of his exhaustive travel across the country, it was not surprising to hear that hypertension was the cause of his death. We were totally unaware of any non prescription drug usage and are actively considering an independent evaluation of the autopsy results."
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