MJ...doctor shopping for extra prescription pills? Drug addict?

[kokonut]

Both of pop superstar Michael Jackson's arms were scarred with track marks, investigators probing his death say, and the marks are consistent with the finding of the potent sedative propofol (trade name Diprivan) in his home -- a drug that is increasingly at the center of their probe into what caused Jackson's death, ABC News has learned.

Note: Track marks are needle marks seen on arm indicative of repeated use of needle into arm.

Prescription medications were found inside Jackson 's $100,000 per month rental home that included ones in his name and ones in other names, including ones that appeared to investigators to be aliases. The medications had been prescribed by multiple doctors.

Jackson was addicted to the analgesic Demerol and to Oxycontin, investigators have told ABC News, and took the drugs daily. Medical experts have reported propofol "blocks out the world."

Those addicted to it routinely report that their abuse began with using the drug to treat insomnia -- an ongoing problem for Jackson.

Michael Jackson's Arms Marred by Track Marks Consistent with Potent Sedative Use - ABC News

So, MJ was an active druggie then? Why am I not surprised? And used fake names to get more prescription drugs?

 

[kokonut]

Sure looks like it.

Medical experts contacted by the ABC News Medical Unit said that the list of 20 drugs reportedly found in Jackson's rented home was "jaw-dropping" and "amazing."

"That list is enough to put down a swarm of zombies," said Richard Bradley, Chief, Division of EMS and Disaster Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

"The list …would be typical for an anesthesia cart in an operating room or what you might find in a recovery room, ICU, ED, etc.. Definitely not what you'd expect to find in a home," said Joseph Ornato, Chair of the Department of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University.

ABC News has reported on a number of those drugs including Demerol and Oxycontin, which the experts note are "cousins to morphine."

Doctor shopping?
Fake names?
Oxycontin?
Large drug cache?
All this would put Rush to shame though he's no longer addicted to pain killer drugs.

Heads gonna roll on how those prescription drugs got into MJ's hands that were prescribed under fake names and to other people.

 

[Oceanbreeze]

Sure looks like it.



Doctor shopping?
Fake names?
Oxycontin?
Large drug cache?
All this would put Rush to shame though he's no longer addicted to pain killer drugs.

Heads gonna roll on how those prescription drugs got into MJ's hands that were prescribed under fake names and to other people.

Why exactly is your obsession with this?

 

[shel90]

Why exactly is your obsession with this?

Also, is there a lesson to be learned from this? If MJ was addicted to prescription pills, what can we do? How can we improve his life? :roll: