Pills recovered from Prince’s Paisley Park estate were falsely labelled and actually contained a drug 50 times more potent than heroin, officials have revealed.
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However, according to an official investigating the musician’s death, almost two dozen pills found at his estate were falsely labeled as hydrocone, a weaker type of opioid.
Investigators also found suitcases and luggage containing Vitamin C pills and aspirin as they searched Paisley Park.
Counterfeit pills found in Prince’s home contained fentanyl, the drug he accidentally, but fatally, overdosed on in April.
Prince had no prescription for any controlled substances in the state of Minnesota in the 12 months before he died, the official said.
Numerous pills seized from Prince’s home were found to have other drugs in them, the official also revealed.
Fentanyl has been responsible for a surge in overdose deaths in some parts of the country.
A number of tablets discovered throughout the musician’s Minneapolis home tested positive for the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, an offical speaking on condition of anonymity told news agency AP. Some pills that were analyzed contained fentanyl, lidocaine and U-47700, a synthetic drug more powerful than morphine. Authorities also apparently found ten oxycodone pills in a bottle with someone else’s name on it (police are not revealing the name).
Tests ordered by doctors before his death don’t show fentanyl in his system, which according to the official who talked to AP means that the singer wasn’t a longtime abuser of that drug and likely took the fatal dose less than 24 hours before his death.
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“Sources with knowledge of the investigation have said that autopsy results also revealed the presence of lidocaine, alprazolam and Percocet”, the story also noted. Lidocaine is a local anesthetic.
