Halladay had a mix of Ambien morphine and amphetamines in the system in fact he had enough Ambien in him per nanogram to blood level ratio that it would have impaired him from driving a car
Mix of drugs found in baseball legend Roy Halladay’s system after fatal plane crash
Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay had morphine in his system when he died in a November plane crash, according to reports.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Baseball legend Roy Halladay had amphetamines, morphine and traces of a drug used to treat insomnia in his system when he was
killed after crashing his private plane into the Gulf of Mexico last year, an autopsy report revealed Friday.
The 40-year-old former Phillies pitcher was alone in his two-seat sports plane when it plunged into the ocean 10 miles off the coast of St. Petersburg, Fla. on Nov. 7.
Halladay, a sure-bet Hall-of-Famer who retired from baseball after the 2013 season, was alternately flying high and then buzzing the water before the “high-energy impact” crushed the plane and ended his life, said National Transportation Safety Board Investigator Noreen Price at the time.
On Friday, the Pinellas County Medical examiner released Halladay’s autopsy report.
The report, obtained by the Daily News, states that morphine was found in Halladay’s system and while that could indicate heroin use, there’s no definite indication that he had used the drug.
Traces of amphetamines and large quantities — 72 ng/mL — of Zolpidem, a drug used to treat insomnia, were also found in the former MLB player’s system.
Any amount over 50 ng/ml of the Zolpidem “appears capable of impairing driving to a degree that increases the risk of a motor vehicle accident,” according to the FDA’s website.
Halladay, whose official cause of death was blunt trauma and drowning, according to the report, suffered a subdural hemorrhage, multiple rib fractures, and lung, liver and spleen injuries in the crash.
He also reportedly fractured a leg.
Halladay was a two-time winner of the Cy Young Award during his 16-year MLB career. He’s one of two players in MLB history to pitch a no-hitter in a playoff game.
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