Almost two dozen were found in the Aleve bottle, a source told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
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As you may recall, the late music icon was found dead in an elevator at his Paisley Park estate in Minnesota back in April and an autopsy later confirmed that he had overdosed on a drug called fentanyl.
While it’s still unclear whether those particular pills caused Prince’s death, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that the discovery is prompting investigators to lean toward the theory that Prince did not know that the pills he took contained fentanyl. Hydrocodone is the opioid that is found in Vicodin, a commonly prescribed painkiller.
“[Prince] took the pills to keep the show going”, Dangcil said noting that Prince’s inner circle “saw that his hips were turning into a bigger problem”.
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Prince was said to have a lot of these pills when his plane made an emergency landing in Illinois April 15, where he was administered Narcan to reverse the effects of opioid overdose. This comes two months after an autopsy revealed that Prince died from a fentanyl overdose. Because of the risk of abuse, overdose and addiction, the Food and Drug Administration imposes tight restrictions on fentanyl; it is classified as a Schedule II controlled substance. The source said Prince weighed only 51 kilograms when he died and had so much fentanyl in his system it would have killed anyone. The official didn’t specify what those tests were or why Prince was tested previously, but they did assert that this indicated he wasn’t a longtime abuser of the drug. Since there was no prescription, Prince’s doctors will likely not be charged. Schulenberg’s attorney, Amy Conners, has said patient-privacy laws do not allow her to say what the prescriptions were. Diazepam is an anti-anxiety pill sold as Valium. It is a form of sedative meant to control seizures, a disorder Prince had since childhood. Another seized pill bottle labeled as aspirin contained lidocaine, a local anesthetic, and U-47700, another potent synthetic opioid.
