Liam Payne died because of drugs

Question

According to ABC News, a partial autopsy revealed that Liam Payne had multiple substances in his body, but also found that the cause of his death was from “multiple trauma” and “internal and external bleeding.” Twenty-five injuries were reported on Payne's body, the report stated that Payne's head injuries were sufficient to cause death and that the cause of death was related to the height of the fall, says Blackwelder. 

Comments

This is an exceptionally well-informed and well-thought out factcheck. I enjoyed that you included the amount of time certain drugs stay in an individual's system, so that readers could form an accurate timeline. This really added perspective to the circumstances of Payne's death and, while drugs played a large role, they were not the ultimate cause of his death

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I think there are a lot of factors that go into Liam Payne's death. From what we know, he was on multiple illegal drugs, acting out in public, and desperate for attention in the moments leading up to his death. Your claim is true that he was on drugs and definitely connected to his death but I don't think anyone, besides him, would know the real reason he is no longer with us today. I would recommend finding more articles that back up this claim.

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Yes there was drugs found in his system but he was also acting out in public, his hotel room was a mess so there was multiple reasons for his death. If an autopsy was added into this data and more information towards his death

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Fantastic work of verifying this claim. i appreciate that you included the various durations that drugs remain in the system to illustrate a timeline of potential events.

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Making a claim so harsh and upfront about a human being that was very well known and loved saying that Liam died over drugs is misleading and can be a touchy subject or even insensitive to some as there have been articles and news reports about his cause of death that wasn't from drugs so saying this straight forwardly can be confusing to some and possibly hurtful if you wanted to continue with this claim a possible better way to maybe restate this could be is it possible Liam pane passed away from over use on drugs? or maybe saying I believe there is more to Liam panes death then what has come from the media and going more in depth with that sentence explaining later what you mean.

Answer 1

I saw that he did pass away with drugs in his system. Though this is true it's been said that he died when he fell off of his hotel room balcony. In a statement from NBC news, it read, "the Security Ministry of Buenos Aires said Payne “had jumped from the balcony of his room.” Medics noted that the singer had “extremely serious injuries” and declared him dead on the scene." Therefore that explains why your claim is false. I do think you did a good job of supporting your stance though. I would say that next time just do a little bit more research. Great job though!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/liam-payne-death-one-direction-pink-cocaine-toxicology-report-rcna176532%C2%A0

Answer 2

Although Liam Payne was found with drugs in his system, this claim is incredibly misleading because that was not his ultimate cause of death. According to ABC News, Payne died after falling from his third-story hotel room, in Palermo, Buenos Aires. Many sources state Payne had various drugs in his system, such as pink cocaine, however, there is no evidence indicating the drugs were the cause of death. An autopsy revealed that Payne died from “multiple traumas and internal and external bleeding” Additionally, “twenty-five injuries were reported” on Payne’s body. Ultimately the cause of death was related to the height of the fall, rather than the drugs he had in his system. 

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/liam-payne-death-investigation-new-details/story?id=115363798

Answer 3

I think the claim made is misleading. Liam Payne had passed from falling off the balcony in Buenos Aires on October 16th. His toxicology reports came back with cocaine, benzodiazepine, and crack. However, the official cause of death was the "multiple traumas" and injuries from the fall, rather than an overdose. While the drugs were found in his system, they weren't the direct cause of death. So in conclusion, the claim is misleading, because there was more of a complex scenario surrounding his death. 

In an article by Today, it is said that the cause of his death is polytrauma and internal and external bleeding. "Polytrauma (multi-trauma) is a short verbal equivalent used for severely injured patients usually with associated injury (i.e. two or more severe injuries in at least two areas of the body), less often with multiple injuries (i.e. two or more severe injuries in one body area)." (NIH, National Library of Medicine) The understanding of the definition accurately reports the factors of the injury.

sources

https://today.com/health/news/liam-payne-autopsy-report-cause-of-death-rcna175959

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2239047/

Answer 4

While Liam Payne was found to have drugs in his system after a partial autopsy took place, this claim is misleading. According to ABC news, Payne did have "...multiple substances in his system when he fell to his death." However, in that same partial autopsy, it was found by a report from the Argentinian Public Prosecutor's Office that Payne died from "multiple traumas" and "internal and external bleeding," along with 25 injuries. This report claimed that "the cause of death was related to the height of his fall." This fact shows that Payne having drugs in his system wasn't the cause of his death, but the height from which he fell and his subsequent injuries is what caused his death. To conclude, this statement is misleading, because Payne did have drugs in his system, but an overdose was not the cause of death.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/liam-payne-partial-autopsy-report-multiple-substances/story?id=114985701

Answer 5

While fact-checking this claim, I found it to be true. Liam Payne passed away October 16 after falling from a third-story balcony in Argentina. Multiple reputable sources such as NBC and Today quoted Payne’s partial toxicology report that was released in which he had “pink cocaine”, a mixture of methamphetamine, ketamine, and MDMA, in his system. There’s no full toxicology report being released in the near future. Also, there were photos of his hotel room released in which you can see cocaine and the hotel’s 911 call was released. In this call, they asked authorities to come urgently as they feared Payne could do something life-threatening.

Answer 6

Yes, this claim is true. An article from NBC news: (https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/pink-cocaine-liam-payne-death-what-know-rcna176556#) confirms that Liam Payne had pink cocaine in his system, and that the drug was a factor in the musicians death. There are many other news outlets reporting similar things as well.

Answer 7

This claim is misleading. Sources told ABC that Liam Payne had "pink cocaine" in his system when he died. ABC is a respectable news company that would not make a claim without making sure these sources are legit. However, the main thing that killed Liam Payne was falling from a hotel. "In a statement to the Associated Press, the Security Ministry of Buenos Aires said Payne “had jumped from the balcony of his room.” Medics noted that the singer had “extremely serious injuries” and declared him dead on the scene" (NBC News). While the drugs might have played a part in leading to Payne's horrible death, claiming that they were the full cause is misleading readers.