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. The vast majority, however, was in bottles of Vitamin C and aspirin that had been tucked inside a suitcase and bags.
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Autopsy results released in June revealed Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose.
Officials told the Associated Press the singer had no prescriptions for controlled substances at the time.
Authorities are still investigating how Prince obtained the drugs, which sources suggest Prince had with him on 15 April (16) – a week before his death – when the airplane on which he was a passenger made an emergency stop in Moline, Illinois, after he fell ill from a suspected drug overdose as he was heading home from a performance in Atlanta, Georgia.
Prince was found dead in his home outside of Minneapolis, Minn., on April 21 at the age of 57.
The official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation, said almost two dozen pills found in one Aleve bottle were falsely labeled as “Watson 385”. Officials found almost two dozen pills similar to the one that was tested, the official said.
Pills seized from the home of U.S. music superstar Prince contained the dangerously powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl but were mislabelled, according to reports.
Drugs found at Prince’s home in the aftermath of his death were mislabeled, according to a new report.
Meanwhile, officials told Star Tribune that Prince had many of these pills with him a week before his death when his airplane made an emergency stop in IL after he fell ill. The official said that tests on the musician conducted prior to his death didn’t find Fentanyl in his system, and that he likely took the fatal does at some point in the twenty-four hours before he died.
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Medical tests before Prince died did not turn up evidence of fentanyl, indicating he was not a long-time user or possibly never a user – a finding that supports the theory he may not have known what he was taking when he overdosed. Lidocaine is a local anesthetic.
