Roy Halladay’s Dad Worried About Prescription Drug Abuse Playing a Role in Fatal Crash

Via TMZ Sports:

NTSB officials say in 2 separate interviews with Halladay’s father shortly after the fatal flight — he told them he was worried the ex-Philadelphia Phillies ace might have been abusing Rx drugs.

Investigators claim Halladay’s father told them Roy had “enrolled in an in-house detox program for an addiction to Lorazepam” a couple years prior to the accident … and he told officials he was “concerned that Roy was abusing prescription medications, and that may have played a role in the accident.”

As we previously reported, an autopsy revealed Halladay had zolpidem (the generic name for Ambien), as well as morphine in his system at the time he crashed his plane in the Gulf of Mexico.

Whether or not Halladay had problems with prescription drugs doesn’t take away from the tragedy of the accident.  He left behind a young family that would be better off with him in their life and that’s truly tragic.

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