Prince died of an opioid overdose

[MADem]

4 paragraphs is the full article:

http://kron4.com/2016/06/02/prince-died-of-an-opioid-overdose/

CHICAGO (AP) – A law-enforcement official tells The Associated Press that tests show the music superstar died of an opioid overdose.

The 57-year-old singer was found dead April 21 at his Minneapolis-area estate.

The official, who is close to the investigation, spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Investigators have been reviewing whether Prince died of an overdose and whether a doctor was prescribing him drugs in the weeks before his death.

[Brickbat]

1. Very sad. We have a long way to go when it comes to managing pain.

[NightWatcher]

2. Free the Cannabis!!!

Can be used to treat pain.
Can be used to beat addiction to opiates.
Can be grown in your back yard or spare bedroom.

Yes We Cannabis!!!

[Holly_Hobby]

3. CNN is reporting

self-administered Fentanyl.

[MADem]

4. That is an interesting detail.

That stuff, mixed w/heroin, is what killed Phillip Seymour Hoffmann.

[RussBLib]

5. self-administered Fentanyl...

but how, exactly? I'd like to know. Does that mean he took too many pills? Did he have too many Fentanyl patches on his body?

"Self-administered Fentanyl" is not descriptive enough, dammit.

[MADem]

6. He might have injected a heroin/fentanyl mix that was mostly fentanyl.

That's what got PSH, as I mentioned above.

[RussBLib]

7. they are probably afraid that people will start using Fentanyl

to be like Prince.

Some people are stupid enough to emulate something like that because they thought that Prince is the Mozart of today.

Prince is NOT today's Mozart. Geez.