Do not touch the sticky side of the patch or the gel. Fentanyl can be quickly absorbed through the eyes and mouth and can be extremely dangerous. If you do touch the sticky side of the patch or gel, let your nurse or doctor.
Prince's 'hydrocodone' pills actually contained fentanyl and could have caused overdose. Pills that were seized from Prince's Minnesota estate on the day he died have shed a new light on the singer's very private battle with drug addiction - and the possible risks he could have been taking in order to satisfy his habit. Among the prescription medications that were taken in for further testing were two dozen hydrocodone pills that officials found in an Aleve bottle. The pills were engraved with the standard hydrocodone labeling of 'Watson 3. Scroll down for video. Problems: Pills that were taken from Prince's estate tested positive for fentanyl singer above in 2.
Super Bowl)Scene: The pills were seized on April 2. Paisley Park property (above), on the same day the singer died. The Star Tribune was first to report the results of the drug testing done by officials on the case. Investigators found large stashes of pills throughout Prince's Paisley Park compound during their search of the property, and many have tested as counterfeit. Some were found laying loose inside the singer's dressing room and bag, there were pills tucked away in bottles of aspirin and Vitamin C, and many were shown to have trace amounts of other drugs after being tested in the lab. There were traces of oxycodone and codeine in some pills, while some of the 'Watson 3. U- 4. 77. 0. U- 4.
Even that is not as strong however as fentanyl. The synthetic opioid has been described as 5. Fentanyl was not detected in Prince's body during tests conducted on the singer prior to his death, which suggests he had only recently begun to take the drug and lends credence to the claim being made by officials that the singer was unaware of the contents of the pills.
Fentanyl is available as a transdermal system for the treatment of chronic pain in opioid-tolerant patients; however, it carries a black box warning due to both the potency of the product and the potential for abuse.
He weighed just 1. The singer had used fentanyl in the past however according to his former drug dealer Doctor D, who said he sold the singer drugs between 1. Daily. Mail. com. Doctor D said he watched him develop a major tolerance to the drugs over the years - regularly taking two to three times the recommended dose.
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Pills: This undated photo provided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation shows fake Oxycodone pills that are actually fentanyl (above)More pills: Acetaminophen and hydrocodone bitartrate 5. Prince also began to use patches of Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid approximately 8. The patches are worn like nicotine patches and provide a 7. He would wear the patch as well as taking the Dilaudid - so it's the equivalent of smoking while you have a nicotine patch on,' Doctor D explained.'It's like having a constant supply of drugs - they sell for about $2.
They come in boxes of five and I would sell Prince 2. You can also smoke them but I only saw him do that once.'You smoke it similar to a crack pipe or something like that - you burn the patch and suck the fumes through a straw.'It gives you an instant, intense hit.'He'd buy large supplies of both drugs - I think the most he ever spent was around $4. I'd say in general his habit was costing him about $2- 3. Doctor D said apart from the one time he saw him smoke a Fentanyl patch, Prince's drug use was limited to popping pills, which enabled him to keep his drug use out of the public eye.'He was always a pill man - that's why nobody ever saw him do drugs,' he said.'He never smoked or shot up, or snorted cocaine.'He was always functional too - I never saw him out of it or strung out because I always provided him with what he needed and he would buy in bulk so he was always prepared.'At the time I was dealing other drugs too but he never asked for anything else.'He wasn't really a party guy either, he was doing these drugs so he could feel at ease around people.
Drugs: Prince's former dealer Doctor D did tell Daily. Mail. com that he sold Prince fentanyl in the past, and once even watched him smoke the drug. Prince was last pictured the night before his death leaving a Walgreen's near his home around 7pm, marking the fourth time the singer had been to the pharmacy that week. An hour later, he headed back inside his vast estate and 1. Kirk Johnson and personal assistant Meron Bekure lying unresponsive in an elevator. Paramedics performed CPR upon arriving on the scene five minutes after receiving a 9. Officials later stated that the singer was likely dead for approximately six hours before his body was found.
An autopsy was performed the following day. The day before Prince died, his representatives reached out to California doctor Dr Howard Kornfeld to arrange a meeting according to a lawyer for the doctor. Attorney William Mauzy said Dr Kornfeld had never met or spoken to Prince before Prince's representatives contacted him on April 2. Mauzy said Dr Kornfeld was not able to travel immediately to Minnesota, so he arranged for his son Andrew to go instead. Andrew Kornfeld took a late flight on April 2. He was with Johnson and Burke when they found Prince in the elevator. He had never met the singer, and when he arrived made the call to 9.
A week prior to his death, Prince's plane had been forced to make an emergency landing in Moline, Illinois when he suffered an overdose. He was given two doses of Narcan to reverse the overdose and soon after returned home to Minnesota, leaving Illinois against the orders of the medical professionals who treated him at the time.
One of the officials involved in the investigation said that Prince had many of the aforementioned counterfeit pills found in his home with him on the plane during that emergency landing.