Overview
- The Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's summary lists acute fentanyl toxicity as Blake Garrett's cause of death and rules the manner accidental.
- The report says Garrett died at a sober living house in Tulsa, updating earlier coverage that reported his February passing without an official cause.
- Garrett died on Feb. 8 at age 33, according to the medical-examiner summary obtained by multiple outlets.
- His mother had said he visited a Tulsa emergency room a week before his death, was diagnosed with shingles, and she suspected he may have accidentally self-medicated after three years of sobriety.
- Garrett was best known as Plug in the 2006 film How to Eat Fried Worms, and public-health experts say this official finding reflects a wider pattern of accidental overdoses caused by highly potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl.