Prince died from an accidental overdose of Fentanyl, according to a one-page report released by the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office on Thursday (June 2), reports the Associated Press.
Fentanyl, self-administered by Prince, is a synthetic opioid used to treat pain and is highly addictive. It’s normally prescribed to treat patients suffering from chronic pain to late-stage cancer and is described as being 50 times more potent than heroin.
There were early suspicions that opioids possibly played a role in the musician’s death after reports of a Percocet addiction surfaced.
Andrew Kornfeld, the son of California pain and addiction specialist, Dr. Howard Kornfeld, ran to Prince‘s aid with opiate blocker buprenorphine in his backpack the night he was found dead in his elevator at his Paisley Park Estate on the morning of April 21. Kornfeld did not administer the buprenorphine seeing he was not licensed to do so.
It was rumored that Prince was battling the flu causing him to cancel and re-schedule his show at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre on April 14. Following the show, his private jet made an emergency landing in Illinois before heading back to Minnesota.
The following day, Prince publicly appeared near his Minnesota home at Paisley Park, showing people that he was able to still do so.
Less than a week later, Prince, 57, was dead; the final circumstances would eventually become a punchline for a Jay Z verse.
The legendary artist’s estate is current embroiled in a tense legal battle for control, seeing he didn’t leave a will.
He was smoking crack mixed with weed & heroine that’s how he died
Naw That Would Be YOU Homie.
Naw That Would Be YOU Homie.
Internet Autopsies…. there’s an app for that….
Internet Autopsies…. there’s an app for that….
That Fentanyl shit is fuckin crazy to be taking thats stuff you give to burn victims i remember a few batches of heroin killed loads of ppl cause they cut it with fentanyl must be cheap to get hold of.Jesus with prince money he could of got anything some xanax or oxys would of worked fine
How many PRINCE are there.Every time i read about PRINCE he died from somrthing else.
they killed him for sure!
He killed himself… hes the one who started the vicious cycle of getting onto pain meds to manage pain just cause those things are legal and doctor prescribed dont make them any good for you way more addicting than cocaine or meth even in my opinion… 60% of our societys on legal dope and its killing them… you start with small stuff flexeril and basic muscle relaxers then you move to anti anxiety and pain killers to alieviate pain as well and the doctor keeps upping you knowing your bodys building a tolerance….then boom on high MG count hydros oxys fentinal and dilateds and shit and your hookes for good and become addicted not only needing them for pain but just to get thru a day without going into shock from withdrawls…. fuckin disgusting….but in the end its at the discretion of the patient taking those pills to find alternatives to pain management and insuring his health pills only do so much could seek different forms of therapy to help aleviate pain plus lighter pain meds and muscle relaxers and he wouldve been good….but the only thing worse than being addicted is being addicted and rich cause no one says no including yourself….just a sad story… ive lost a close family member and a good friend to pill overdoses and i can say first hand they were putting those pills in there own hands and mouths in the end we are all responsible for our own actions and the consequences…RIP PRINCE THS PURPLE GOD
the pills get a hold of you its very hard to stop i take them recreationally tramadol n valium but i know people hooked so bad they cant get out of bed or leave the house without their drugs they seem to do nothing but have them depressed zombies with never wanting to do anything or leave the house sometimes i wanna go to the doctor and scream at them for ever putting them on the pills in the first place
@bet the taliban put fentanyl into the heroin just to kill westeners,
He was probably at the end of his rope and had been on all of that stuff before, so his body had built up a tolerability. His hip was fucked up like 25 or 30 years. He was withdrawing from the oxycotin not working for pain management anymore and looking for an alternative. He probably tried this as the alternative, and like you said that shit is pretty strong and was way too strong for him being as small as he was. People acting like he was in a room with a spoon or some shit though using that shit to get high need to give that shit a rest. He was in chronic pain and accidentally overdosed fucking with shit that was too strong for him. RIP.
Damn its too bad addiction had to take anothet shining star from us..