8:02 a.m. ET: Within hours of the Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. attorney’s office joining the Carver County Sheriff’s probe into Prince’s death on Wednesday, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that the painkiller Percocet was detected in the singer’s body when he died on April 21, citing a source familiar with the investigation.
However, until the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office releases its conclusive findings, we won’t know what actually caused his death. Toxicology reports, the lengthiest part of the autopsy process, generally take between three weeks to one month to be released, which means Prince’s results are probably not due for another week or two.
Wednesday also brought news that addiction specialist Andrew Kornfeld from the California-based Recovery Without Walls had been summoned to Paisley Park the day of Prince’s death and that he was the one who placed the 911 call.
His father Howard, a doctor who founded the non-traditional, outpatient clinic, has had success in treating patients with pain using Suboxone (buprenorphine), a decades-old semi-synthetic drug considered less risky in terms of addiction and overdose than other painkillers linked to increasing addictions and deaths due to prescription drug abuse.
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