Whitney Houston’s cause of death: Accidental drowning, cocaine use, heart disease – cbsnews
The famous singer-actress Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012 at the age of 48 a day before the Grammy Award at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. She was found submerged in a bathtub on the said day. According to the authorities there is now foul play that can be seen in her body.
The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner’s office released the official results of Whitney Houston’s Autopsy that the cause of her death was the Accidental drowning, cocaine use and heart disease.
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According to the news that cocaine was found in her system and aside from that, Marijuana, xanax, Flexeril and Benadryl were found in her system too.
Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky, professor and chair of the department of sciences at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City explained why they are the main cause of her death:
Cocaine use conceivably could have led to a tachycardia, which is a sped-up heart rate, or an arrhythmia, which is an irregular heartbeat. Both can seriously disrupt the body’s normal heart function. – cbsnews
“When a person consumes cocaine, the liver converts it into side products called metabolites, he said. “The toxicologist has probably calculated that there is a sufficient amount in her body that caused the overdose.””
The doctor said that the anti-anxiety drug Xanax and the muscle relaxer Flexiril are the prescriptions that were found in her system and that would also have potential for overdose, the reason for her death.
Whitney Houston was laid to rest in New Jersey on February 19 and her will leaves to her one and only daughter, 19-eyar old Bobbi Kristina.
