The American singer succumbed to an overdose of Fentanyl, a powerful opioid analgesic.
The hypothesis had been put forward the day after the death of the Prince; here it is confirmed. The American singer died at the age of 57 from an overdose of Fentanyl, a powerful opioid analgesic. The information was issued by the forensic institute which carried out the autopsy.
Fentanyl is a strong pain reliever prescribed for patients with cancer or very severe chronic pain. It has an effect about 100 times more powerful than that of morphine. It comes in injectable, patch, nasal spray or even tablet form and is only available on prescription.
14,000 overdoses in 2014
At the end of May, the Minneapolis Star Tribune had indicated that the singer was following a withdrawal treatment prescribed by a doctor in Minnesota, started during the weeks before his death. According to the people site TMZ, Prince indeed suffered from an addiction to opiates for a long time. The singer was found on April 21 lifeless in an elevator at his recording studios in Paisley Park, Minnesota.
Opioid overdoses are a major public health problem in the United States. In 2014, 14,000 people lost their lives in the country in this way.
For several years, the number of seizures of Fentanyl has multiplied across the Atlantic. Thus, in 2014, nearly 4,500 were reported against 618 two years earlier, indicated the New York Times in May. In addition, “overdoses are occurring at an alarming rate,” warned the US agency against drug trafficking (DEA) in a statement.
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