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barbiturate
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Medical records show that Holden went to drug and alcohol rehabilitation in March 2008 but continued to receive from Buckwalter prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications as well as butalbital, a barbituate, and codeine, a narcotic, the lawsuit said.
He had become addicted to barbituates and alcohol during his time in combat, drugs that numbed his conscience, that gave him just enough "crazy" to climb into a chopper and kill Vietnamese people every day, firing into trees as the helicopter zoomed past at 100 mph.
A HOLLYWOOD'S most charming cad was 65 when he took a fatal overdose of barbituates in the coastal town of Castelldefels, near Barcelona, in 1972.
 
 
 
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