Cocaine 'killed Ike Turner'
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US soul legend Ike Turner, who died in December, was killed by a cocaine overdose, coroners say.
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NEW YORK  - A pre-existing defect in body temperature regulation may be a factor underlying some fatal reactions to the illegal "club drug" ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA), researchers from Canada propose.
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Crystal meth â coma â lawsuit A Canadian former drug addict has successfully sued the dealer who supplied the crystal methamphetamine that triggered a heart attack and put her in a coma for 11 days, the Times reports.â¦
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By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES  - A Brazilian pop producer who waskilled earlier this month when he slammed his motorcycle into acar after leaving the Latin Grammy awards was under theinfluence of alcohol at the time of the crash, a coroner'sspokesman said on Tuesday.
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A drug overdose killed former NL MVP Ken Caminiti, who admitted using steroids during his playing days and tested positive for cocaine in the days before he died.
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Troubled former baseball star Ken Caminiti, the first major league player to admit he used steroids in his playing days, died of an overdose of cocaine and opiates, the medical examiner ruled Monday.
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Old Dirty Bastard&#39;s death outside a New York studio was ruled an accidental overdose by a medical examiner. The New York City medical examiner&#39;s office said ODB died fromt he effects of combining cocaine wiht Tramadol, a prescription painkiller.
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Tata Guines, Cuba's most famous percussionist, dies of a kidney infection in Havana, aged 77.
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Rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike Turner, whose musical achievements were largely overshadowed by the notoriety he received after his former wife and recording partner Tina Turner said he had abused her, won his first Grammy Award since 1972 on Sunday.
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Seventeen people have died in New York City in the past three months after overdosing on illegal drugs laced with the prescription painkiller fentanyl, authorities said Tuesday.
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A self-described drug addict stood by a vacant lot on the city&#039;s South Side and pointed down the block. There, he says, more than a dozen of his friends and acquaintances died after using heroin laced with a strong painkiller.
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Rock-and-roll pioneer Ike Turner, who was found dead last month, died of an accidental cocaine overdose, the San Diego County medical examiner said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK -- The death of rapper ODB was deemed an accident by the medical examiner, who said yesterday that he died from the combined effects of cocaine and a prescription painkiller.
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LOS ANGELES - Toxicology and other tests determined that funk singer Rick James died last month from a heart attack due to an enlarged heart, with numerous drugs including methamphetamine and cocaine contributing factors, the county coroner's office announced Thursday.    The death was declared an accident, said coroner's spokesman David Campbell, who emphasized that none of the drugs were found to be at life-threatening levels...
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Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressant drugs, a U.S.-based pathologist who conducted a private autopsy said Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES - Toxicology and other tests determined that funk singer Rick James died last month from a heart attack due to an enlarged heart, with numerous drugs including methamphetamine and cocaine contributing factors, the county coroner announced Thursday.    The death was declared an accident, said coroner's spokesman David Campbell, who emphasized that none of the drugs were found to be at life-threatening levels...
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By Lisa Redmond, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  May 24--LOWELL -- At 5 a.m. last Friday, Andre "Dre" Young's life came to a bloody end.   After a "confrontation" with Juan Carlos Felix and Eliezer Montanez in their 5 Warwick St.