In 1969, my dad had his hip/leg shattered from the socket to 6 inches above his knee.
The doctors gave him percocet for the pain. After a couple years he made the decision to quit them because he knew it was causing him more problems than the pain.
He took aspirin instead but that was like putting a bandaid on a gaping wound.
But he refused any opioids until he died in 1990
Well I don’t want to speculate, could have been a heart attack.
My understanding is that Billy is a health nut, you can tell because he still has a lot of energy on stage. Dusty had health problems throughout the years, especially a bout with Hep C in the early 2000s.