DJ AM died of an overdose

The death of DJ AM is unofficially being considered an overdose, not a suicide, but let’s dogpile onto the sadness because the reason he was taking so many drugs was because he became addicted to the anti-anxiety medicine Xanax, and this led to a relapse into other drugs. Xanax was prescribed to him because he had to fly all over the world for his job, and he developed a near crippling anxiety over flying after he was almost burned alive in a plane crash last September. Seems reasonable.

AM, a recovering addict, developed a dependency to Xanax and other benzodiazepines (a group of drugs used to treat anxiety) as a direct result of the plane crash a year ago … doctors began prescribing Xanax and other anti-anxiety medications to relieve his fear, but the benzos triggered a relapse into addiction. We’re told benzos are particularly dicey for recovering addicts.
DJ AM’s relapse was “recent” — he was not abusing for a prolonged period of time before his death.
We’re also told the OD had “absolutely nothing to do with his recent breakup.”
Our sources say the evidence strongly indicates cause of death will be a combination of crack cocaine and benzos.

Last year AM talked to Glamour magazine about his profound drug and food addictions that lasted from his teens to his mid 20’s. His depression led to suicide attempts and before gastric bypass surgery in 2003, he weighed 324 pounds. That interview was in January of 2008, and at the time it had been nine and a half years since he’d done drugs or had a drink. 9 months later he was in the plane crash, less than two years later he was dead of a drug overdose.

I’d like to hear what Kelly Preston and Jenna Elfman have to say about this. Why do people waste time with so called “medicine” when Scientology can fix you permanently?