Jeff Coway's death declared accidental by the court (Mian Shakeel Aslam)

Mian Shakeel Aslam---Death of actor Jeff Conaway ruled accidental in Los Angeles County Coroner's Office on Monday.

Conaway, who was in the television series "Taxi" and the movie "Grease," died May 27 after being found unconscious 17 days ago, said his manager.

Death due to accident is the result of drugs found in his urine when he was admitted to hospital on May 10, the report said.

He also said he does not know how long the brain was without oxygen Conaway, an actor, he was taken to the hospital, and that he "could suck his own vomit."

Pneumonia was initially considered the cause of death, and the doctor who treated him with a drug addiction for years, said his addiction to prescription painkillers eventually cost him his life.

"Jeff is a heavy heavy opiate addicts with chronic pain, a combination of the most serious and dangerous problems that could work with" Dr. Drew Pinsky, addiction medicine, said in May when recording "Dr. Drew "show on HLN.

"It seems that pain is to motivate opiate, and I told him for years, is to kill him," said Pinsky.
In the weeks before his death, Conaway, 60, was suffering from pneumonia and sepsis. He was in an induced coma in Encino, California, to the hospital for two weeks, manager Phil Brock said.

Conaway his family around in her hospital room May 26, when he was removed from life support, said Brock.

Conaway fight alcohol abuse and drug use was recorded in 2008 in a reality TV show "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew."
"What happens is, as most opiate addiction, or a little too much, not much more than usual, and exhausting, so it is in their mouth enters your lungs," said Pinsky. " This leads to pneumonia rapid and overwhelming, which usually do not know they have because they are a little too much of it as drugs. And when they arrive at the hospital, it is too late. C is what happened with Jeff. "

There is no evidence than ever intentionally overdosed, Pinsky said.

 

Posted By: Mian Shakeel Aslam

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/03/showbiz/ent-jeff-conaway-dead/index.html