Celebrities Who Died from Drug Overdose

Carrie Fisher (1956 – 2016)

On December 23, 2016, on a return flight from her European book tour, a passenger who sat next to Carrie Fisher reported to the crew that Cariie Fisher had stopped breathing on her flight back to Los Angeles. She was admitted to UCLA Ronald Reagan Hospital and was put on a ventilator. Four days later on December 27, 2016 Carrie Fisher was dead. She was 60 years old. Almost a year later, the Los Angeles County Coroner declared that her cause of death was due to “cardiac arrest/deferred” and this was the official ruling on her death certificate. A full toxicology report found that at the time of her death, Carrie Fisher had cocaine, traces of heroin, other opiates, as well as MDMA, also known and “Ecstasy.”