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  • Amanda Peterson: ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ Actress Died of Accidental Morphine Overdose

    Amanda Peterson, best known for her role in the film Can’t Buy Me Love, died of an accidental morphine overdose, according to a coroner’s report.

    Pathologist Dr. Michael Burson wrote in the report that Amanda Peterson “was attempting to self-medicate her pain at the time of death.”

    Drugs to treat depression, anxiety, pain, and insomnia were present in her blood at therapeutic levels, according to the report.. The drug gabapentin, which Peterson had been prescribed for pain from a recent hysterectomy, was present at six times the therapeutic level, the report also said. Trace amounts of marijuana were also detected.

    Amanda Peterson was found dead in her Colorado apartment back in early July. Although she hadn’t been prescribed morphine at the time, it is believed she obtained the drug from a friend.

    “We can’t say she has never been prescribed morphine, but we couldn’t find any recent prescriptions in her medical history, so she wasn’t a [knowledgeable] opiate user,” Coroner Mike Ward said in the report. “The amount of morphine she ingested, coupled with her heart and lung disease, resulted in a fatal event.”

    In addition to her role in Can’t Buy Me Love, alongside Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson had a role in the first film version of the musical Annie.

    When family members hadn’t heard from Amanda Peterson for several days earlier this summer, they contacted local authorities, who conducted a wellness check at her apartment. That’s when her body was discovered.

    How sad that her day was preventable.

  • Donny Osmond Going Under the Knife, in Good Hands With Adele, Sam Smith Doctor

    Donny Osmond has a bleeding lesion on his right vocal cord and will be having surgery to repair it. After a reasonable respite following the surgery, his voice will be good as new. The male half of the Donny & Marie singing duo–he and sister Marie Osmond are presently performing in Las Vegas–knows he’s in good hands because his surgeon has recently operated on other big names in the music world.

    Dr. Steven M. Zeitel of Harvard Medical School is doing Donny Osmond’s surgery. He is the doctor who restored Adele back to fine singing order and recently operated on Sam Smith, too.

    While this isn’t a life-threatening surgery, it is very serious, because for singers like Adele, Sam Smith, and Donny Osmond, it could be career ending if not done properly.

    Given Dr. Zeitel’s previous successes, he was the obvious choice for Donny Osmond’s surgery.

    Fans of Donny & Marie will be disappointed if they have tickets for the brother and sister act’s September shows. Shows for that month have been cancelled. However by October it is expected that Donny Osmond will be back in business and singing with his sister again.

    Do you think singers like Donny Osmond, Adele, and Sam Smith are severely overworked? It’s only in recent years that bleeding on the vocal cords in popular singers has been prevalent in the news. Should some of these singers slow down a bit? Even if they don’t make quite as much money, perhaps they will enjoy better health, and not subject themselves to this serious vocal cord injury that is only corrected through surgery.