Autopsy: drugs found in MLB star Roy Halladay’s system after plane crashBy Zachary T. Sampson
Published: January 19, 2018
Updated: January 19, 2018 at 08:25 PM
When former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay died in a plane crash in November, he had amphetamines, morphine and the sleep aid zolpidem in his system, according to an autopsy report.
Halladay, 40, died from blunt force trauma with drowning as a contributing factor, according to the Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner’s Office. ...
The presence of those drugs alone does not mean the pilot was impaired, however. That determination has to be made by the federal agency, which has yet to release a final report. ...
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