Did you read the list of medications found on Heath Ledger's bedside table? Anything ending in "azepam" or "orapam" or just plain "pam" period is stuff you don't want to be all free and easy with, especially not mixing them all and taking a lot of them.
I've been taking clonazepam daily for a couple of years now. (Yes, by prescription.) I have learned to be very careful with it. When I get on an airplane, I know I can take 2 1/2 pills and drink one glass of white wine, fall into a light snooze and then take a taxi to my end destination.
That's the max, though. I won't take it any further than that, no matter how strung out I might be.
The doctor who looked at the low-down at Newsweek said something like, each of these affects different parts of your brain and they all act to depress the central nervous system, which controls (surprise!) your breathing. A lot of people who take these, if they don't get the results they want in half an hour, they'll take another. And then another. And because these also affect short term memory, will forget how many they've taken.
So it may all be that it was a horrible mistake, but it was still stupid, stupid, stupid.
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