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EXCLUSIVE: Friends And Family Planning Memorial Service For Corey Haim
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Family and friends of tragic Lost Boys actor Corey Haim are planning a tribute service for him in Los Angeles following his funeral in Toronto on Tuesday, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The source told RadarOnline.com: “I spoke with Corey’s mom Judy Haim and she told me that she wants a small service as a tribute to him back in Los Angeles also because a lot of his friends cannot go to Toronto.
“She is trying to cope with losing her son while fighting her breast cancer too.
EXCLUSIVE: Corey Haim Died Of Accidental Drugs Overdose, Says Expert
Posted on Mar 12, 2010 @ 02:13PM - 6 comments
A toxicology expert has told RadarOnline.com that he believes that Lost Boys star Corey Haim died of an accidental drugs overdose.
And tragically just like in the Brittany Murphy case Dr Bruce Goldberger the Director of Toxicology at the University Of Florida College of Medicine believes that a ‘perfect storm’ of circumstances led to Haim’s demise also.
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There had been conjecture this week that the 38-year-old actor had an enlarged heart and that his lungs had filled with water with the cause of death being pulmonary congestion.
But sources close to the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office – who performed an autopsy on Thursday – told RadarOnline.com ‘there was no conclusion of death’ and that the toxicology tests would take 4 to 5 weeks.
Corey Haim Dead Of Accidental Drugs Overdose
Dr Goldberger, who was not involved with the autopsy, said: “In my opinion it will prove to be an accidental overdose caused by the combination of three of the prescription drugs found at the scene Vicodin, Valium and Soma (a muscle relaxer), this could potentially be a lethal combination.
“Both Michael Jackson and Brittany Murphy had fluid in their lungs at the time of death and it’s entirely possible that Haim did have an enlarged heart and that his lungs had become filled with water also.
“People who have been chronically using drugs over a long period usually develop cardio vascular disease which can mean an enlarged heart.
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“I have read reports that he was seeing a new treatment specialist in recent times and any detox program would have can be extremely dangerous given his past history.
“This has to be done very carefully and during the process the person can be left feeling very weak with flu like symptoms and in Haim’s case it was reported that he had these just before he died.
“Over the years he was in rehab a lot and sadly he was also under a lot of stress because his mother was receiving treatment for cancer too.
“I just hope this does not turn-out to be another case where a young star has been getting drugs through enablers because that is becoming far to prevalent with cases like Heath Ledger, Brittany Murphy and Michael Jackson all raising major suspicions.”
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Immediately following Haim’s death on Wednesday a close friend of the actor told RadarOnline.com that they knew that Corey had been abusing prescription drugs to help him cope with the fact that his mom Judy Haim had breast cancer.
His best friend and Lost Boys co-star Corey Feldman told talk show host Larry King that he believed that a variety of factors could have resulted in the shock death.
Feldman said: “This could have been a kidney failure, a heart failure, a mixture of drugs or it could have been that your body shuts down after years of abuse.
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“I know that he was seeing a treatment specialist who was new in the mix. He'd only been seeing him for the past two weeks.
“That treatment specialist put him on a new line of medication which may not have corresponded properly with the medication that he was currently taking.”
EXCLUSIVE: Corey Haim Was Abusing Prescription Drugs Says Friend
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A close friend of Lost Boys actor Corey Haim has exclusively told RadarOnline.com that the actor was abusing prescription drugs in his final days. The friend said he feared the former child star would die from a prescription drugs overdose.
Haim was pronounced dead at St Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank at 2.15 a.m. Wednesday after becoming ill at his nearby apartment where he was staying with his mom Judy who is fighting breast cancer.
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Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter revealed that although no illegal drugs were found at the apartment, authorities did discover four prescription bottles of pills inside.
Haim’s friend –who didn’t want to be identified --- said: “I’m not surprised that this has happened because he was abusing prescription drugs.
“Corey got really upset that his mom was being treated for breast cancer and that she had lost her hair because of chemotherapy.
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“She is all he really had in the world and although he was helping her he got pretty depressed about the situation.
“Corey was a helpful person and a good friend to me and I’m very upset that he has died but I knew that he had been taking too many pills recently to help him cope with the stresses in his life.
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“He used to get my mail and run errands for me if I was sick and I’ll miss him a lot – I just hope his mom can overcome her cancer.”
Haim and his mom Judy were living in a modest two bedroom $1800 a month apartment at the Oakwood Apartment complex in Burbank, where nearby studios house young actors who have just arrived in Los Angeles.
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News of Haim’s sudden death sent shockwaves around the large gated complex where many tenants described Haim as ‘quiet but friendly’.
One tenant told RadarOnline.com: “I just saw him fairly recently and he seemed to be in good spirits – I’m shocked that he has died.
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“He was a quiet guy and it was ironic that a lot of the young actors who are just starting out on their careers did not even know who he was or anything about his career.
“It’s sad because he died at such an early age and he seemed to like the fact that nobody really knew who he was here.”
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An autopsy will be performed to determine the exact cause of death, but earlier Wednesday, police said it appears Haim died of an accidental drug overdose.
Haim, just 38 years old, was best known for starring in such movies as The Lost Boys, Murphy’s Romance, and Lucas.
