I'm in MN where they've been reporting this all day. While he apparently did have the flu or something like it a few days ago no one is yet confirming what he died from. He was found unresponsive in an elevator at Paisley Park.
I'm in MN where they've been reporting this all day. While he apparently did have the flu or something like it a few days ago no one is yet confirming what he died from. He was found unresponsive in an elevator at Paisley Park.
Most speculation on the death of Prince, who passed away Thursday at age 57, has centered on his struggle with the flu, but new reports suggest the late pop icon may also have suffered from an opioid overdose. If that’s the case, experts say the combination could be deadly, as the respiratory illness and even a regular dosage of opioids can effectively depress the body’s ability to breathe.
Gupta, who advises the Food and Drug Administation (FDA) on the problem of opioid overdose, said the reported sequence of events surrounding Prince’s death “sounds like it was an overdose.”
She pointed out that people who suffer from overdose once are likelier to suffer from one again. According to the CDC, opioid overdose deaths are now outpacing deaths from car accidents. Nearly half a million Americans died from drug overdoses between 2000 and 2014.
“Every 19 minutes, someone dies from an overdose,” Gupta said. “It’s incredibly sad.”
Prince was a great guitar player, but not because Rolling Stone says so. They put Johnny Ramone at [-]#16[/-] and Kurt Cobain at [-]#12[/-] for example...two people who could barely play, above Eddie Van Halen at [-]#70[/-] and David Gilmour at [-]#82[/-].Yeah, don't get me started on that...
Then again, my list would likely be a bunch of jazz and prog rock players, with the occasional Chet Atkins or Vince Gill scattered here and there...
Multiple sources in Moline tell us, Prince was rushed to a
hospital and doctors gave him a "save shot" ... typically
administered to counteract the effects of an opiate.
Our sources further say doctors advised Prince to stay in the hospital for 24
hours. His people demanded a private room, and when they were told that wasn't
possible ... Prince and co. decided to bail. The singer was released 3 hours
after arriving and flew home.
I wonder how accurate this news item is about Prince. Another victim of the entertainment community done in by illegal drugs?
Read more: Prince Treated for Drug Overdose Days Before Death | TMZ.com
Yeah, don't get me started on that...
Then again, my list would likely be a bunch of jazz and prog rock players, with the occasional Chet Atkins or Vince Gill scattered here and there...
Music Lover - really? I provided the link, how did you manage to misrepresent them all? What the heck are you looking at
Rolling Stone showed #16 was Derek Trucks, #12 was Stevie Ray Vaughan, #70 was Jack White.
Cobain was #73, Gilmour was #14, Eddie Van Halen was #8.
I'm not going to look up the rest for you, you can look again...
TMZ is reporting that Prince overdosed on Percocet (an opiate drug for pain relief) 6 days before his death, when his plane had to make an emergency landing in Illinois, so they could rush him to the hospital to save his life. He eventually made it home to Minnesota, but apparently got more prescription drugs from his doctor there, and died a few days later. They say he needed hip replacement surgery and was in constant pain (his hips were damaged from years of jumping around on stage in those heels he wore), but his religious beliefs (Jehovah's Witness) forbade him from having a blood transfusion, which is a normal part of that type of surgery. So it appears that he resorted to opiate pain meds for relief, and got addicted. Very sad.........
Prince: Percocet Triggered OD Days Before Death | TMZ.com
We'll get the full story eventually. This is not necessarily a "rock star OD". This can happen to anyone. It really can.
A physician friend and I were talking this morning about the problem of opiate addiction, and he says that in continuing education, they are being taught to "forget everything we said 20 years ago." Apparently, it was the standard in the 90s to treat any pain aggressively. Many docs took that to heart and would prescribe oxy, hydrocodone, percocet, etc. with even the simplest pain issues.
Well, now it is more for a last resort kind of thing. It is very easy to get addicted to anything opiate based. And when you've gone through chronic pain issues, you'll take your chances.
My doc is an NSAID advocate because of this. They have their own issues, but at least addiction isn't one of them.
It's hard to find links to his music, because he kept such a tight handle on his library. But even those of you who say you weren't fans (most of us here?) would probably be surprised how many of his songs you know or have heard. Just the hits, like When Doves Cry, Raspberry Beret, 1999, Kiss, Little Red Corvette, Purple Rain, Let's Go Crazy, and on and on. Almost all of those were either number 1 or number 2 hits on Billboard.
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. . . And this crackdown on prescription opiates has reduced their availability on the black market, driven up street prices, and resulted in the much wider use of heroin by opiate addicts (as a now-cheaper and more widely available alternative to stolen/black-market prescription opiates). The use of heroin of widely varying strength and cut with fentanyl and God-knows-what other poisons, is resulting in an epidemic of OD deaths.Then the above started to happen and now it seems they are tightening the reigns again due to DEA crackdown not only on prescribers but pharmacies that unquestioningly fill any large quantity opiates
We'll get the full story eventually. This is not necessarily a "rock star OD". This can happen to anyone. It really can.
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But the link HFWR posted - wow, that's some serious playing, performance, and musicianship (IMO). It's not hit material, but it is impressive, and probably the best I've seen of him.
-ERD50
. . . And this crackdown on prescription opiates has reduced their availability on the black market, driven up street prices, and resulted in the much wider use of heroin by opiate addicts (as a now-cheaper and more widely available alternative to stolen/black-market prescription opiates). The use of heroin of widely varying strength and cut with fentanyl and God-knows-what other poisons, is resulting in an epidemic of OD deaths.
I knew his partying days were long gone, but I did find this comment interesting.
Close followers of Prince find it hard to believe that anything sinister could have played into his death. He was a Jehovah’s Witness and obsessively healthy eater. You couldn’t drink, smoke or even curse at his Paisley parties.
“Better eat your cheeseburger before you get to Paisley,” Van Jones, a political commentator and activist who was a friend of Prince’s, said he used to think before visiting Prince.
Clues to the Mystery of Prince’s Final Days
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Organic food.If 1959 was the year the music died, 2016 is the year the music was utterly annihilated, cremated, pulverized and vaporized.
And yet, Keith Richards lives on. Go figure.