Posted on 04/23/2016 3:50:46 PM PDT by drewh
Prince's former drug dealer has revealed the full extent of the late-star's secret drug addiction - telling how the superstar was hooked on powerful opiates for over 25 years.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Mail Online, the performer's long-time dealer - who asked to be named only as Doctor D - revealed the singer would spend up to $40,000 a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches - both highly addictive opioid pain killers.
Prince, who was found dead on Thursday at his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was secretly cremated in an intimate ceremony at a nondescript funeral home in Minneapolis shortly after an autopsy was completed on Friday, Radar reports.
Prince's sister Tyka Nelson and another family member reportedly spent a few minutes saying goodbye at the First Memorial Waterston Chapel before the musician was cremated.
His death came just days after sources claimed he overdosed on the opiate Percocet.
Doctor D said the musician, who he described as 'majorly addicted', regularly bought drugs from him between 1984 and 2008.
The dealer, often to the stars, said Prince suffered crippling stage fright and could not get on stage and perform without the drugs - but had a phobia of doctors so could not obtain a prescription legally. Tragically, Doctor D suggests it could have been a physician that unknowingly contributed to Prince's death - by prescribing strong pain killers to the singer for his hip condition without knowing the extent of his secret opiate addiction.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
more and more like MJ, all the time, wow.
Imagine that. How many young rock stars have died over the past several from drugs/alcohol mixes?
IF this is true it just adds to the sadness... there is a reason the stuff is called dope...shrinks might have been a better answer...
Way to pile on the dead before they’ve even been buried.
He was at Walgreens looksing for opiates apparently days afterwords...
I guess everyone has their personal demons...
That’s a long time to be addicted...
I’m surprised he didn’t die sooner...
I wonder why he never tried to break the habit...
More evidence that if you can afford drugs, you’re much more likely to become an addict. Why again do the libertarians want to legalize this poison, increasing the available supply and lowering the price?
Cremated? No more hip, no more pain.
Opioids can only do so much.
RIP
27, not 57.....
Prince should just have gotten a hip replacement, Jehovah’s Witnesses have that procedure regularly as I understand it under spinal anesthesia and without a blood transfusion. I admire the man for being heavily involved with his faith but surgery can’t be any more heretical than a painkiller addiction.
Playing an instrument is hard.
Doing a good job of playing an instrument is even harder.
Singing while playing an instrument is really hard.
Doing a good job of singing and playing an instrument is even harder.
Writing music is exceptionally hard.
Doing a good job of writing music is even harder.
When you play music, and it’s really good, it’s magical.
It’s like a drug. You want it all the time.
But, it isn’t always good.
Sometimes, the notes or words don’t come like they used to.
Your fingers get stiff and your voice goes.
You want the magic. The people want the magic.
And it’s just not there.
So you look for alternatives, and then you’re done.
“Why again do the libertarians want to legalize this poison, increasing the available supply and lowering the price?”
1. There is no Constitutional authority for the Feds to make it illegal.
2. Making it illegal inevitably creates a flourish in black market run by really, really bad people.
3. Laws can’t change human nature. A certain percentage of the population will ingest mind altering substances regardless of its legality.
4. Legalizing it will actually make it more difficult for minors to obtain it.
Those will do for a start.
L
Celebrity worship fulfills a need in the lives of vapid, epicurean people. The fact that this guy was an opiate addict will not dissuade them of their fervent devotion and delusions.
More like the "stage fright" was a made up malady as an excuse to use drugs.
how many creative artists have succumbed to something or other through the centuries?
Poe. Van Gogh? or was that just madness?
I don’t know country music but it dates earlier than rock n roll. I wonder if any were heavy drinkers.
The rockers seem by far though to be the worst.
I’m kind of surprised that he would need a prescription painkiller for his hip that he had to personally pick up from Walgreens himself if he had channels for getting anything he wanted.
People don’t take Opioids to avoid pain.
They take them to avoid withdrawal.
The tragedy of addiction.
Several have speculated that the prescription medication for the hip pain combined with the rumored dilaudid and fentanyl could have been what killed him.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.