HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — DJ AM's death has been ruled an accident due to substance abuse.
On Tuesday, the New York City medical examiner's office disclosed that the celebrity disc jockey died from a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs and cocaine, the Associated Press reports.
A toxicology report showed that DJ AM had OxyContin, Benadryl and another drug used to cut cocaine in his system.
DJ AM, whose real name was Adam Goldstein, was found dead inside his New York City apartment on Aug. 28.
His death came nearly a year after he and Blink-182 musician Travis Barker were the lone survivors in a South Carolina plane crash that killed four people.
"It's something that I struggle with every day, you know, kind of wondering," DJ AM said in July of his brush with death at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. "But I've just realized I'm never really going to know. I'm alive, and I'm here, and I have another chance. So I have to do something better with my life this time."
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