The Autopsy Discloses Fentanyl as the Cause of Former Child Star Adam Rich's Death.

 

The effects of fentanyl are considered the cause of death for Adam Rich, the child actor known as “America’s little brother” for his character on the hit family drama “Eight is Enough.”👇

The former television star’s death this January has been ruled an accident by the Los Angeles County Medical-Officer Coroner’s office, conferring to an autopsy report. Rich expired in his Los Angeles home at stage of 54.

His fame came at just eight years old as the mop-topped son raised by a widower newspaper columnist in ABC’s “Eight is Enough.” A limited acting profession followed the show’s run from 1977 to 1981.

Rich had publicly deliberated his involvements with sadness and substance abuse in the months before he died. He tweeted in October that he had been sober for seven years after arrests, many rehab stints and several overdoses. He urged his followers to never give up.

He was arrested in April 1991 for trying to break into a pharmacy and again that October for supposedly stealing a drug-filled syringe at a hospital while receiving treatment for a disrupted shoulder. A DUI arrest came in 2002 after he struck a parked California Highway Patrol cruiser in a closed freeway lane.

“He was just a very kind, generous, loving soul,” Deraney told The Associated Press. “Being a famous actor is not necessarily what he wanted to be. … He had no ego, not an ounce of it.”