A timeline of famous prescription drug overdoses

Looking back at our pop culture's victims of Rx drugs provides an interesting glimpse into the kinds of pills that were available and popular at the time: Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland were both fond of barbiturates, an anti-anxiety med more euphoric and addictive than Valium now widely unavailable. Elvis popped off quaaludes, a highly euphoric pill of the 70s that is no longer on the market. One of the drugs Heath Ledger used was Ambien, a drug only on the market since the late Nineties. One wonders what is next for the us. Hopefully Michael Jackson's drug of choice, the anesthetic propofol, will not gain a following. Read the posts below for the timeline.