RIP Prince

[KCargosfan]

http://www.mtv.com/news/2871639/char...appelles-show/

[jerrym]

In honour of Prince

[1argoholic]

The guy put MJ to shame. He was a true musician. Not a fan but the guy was special in his way.

[Will]

The guy put MJ to shame. He was a true musician. Not a fan but the guy was special in his way.

You hit the nail on the head here.

[jerrym]

Prescription painkillers may have been involved in Prince's death, as in those of so many others.

Prescription drugs were discovered with Prince when he was found dead in his Paisley Park home in suburban Minneapolis, several news organizations reported.

ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN, citing unidentified law enforcement sources, reported that prescription painkillers were found on the 57-year-old musician and in his home. The Star Tribune, also citing unnamed sources, reported that prescription pills were found but that it wasn't clear whether they had been prescribed to Prince.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/prince-prescription-drugs-1.3556984

[PullTogether73]

The guy put MJ to shame.

Um, no.
MJ was not put to shame by anybody (in terms of performances).

[Will]

Um, no.
MJ was not put to shame by anybody (in terms of performances).

I think MJ was the better showman, but I think Prince was a better musician.

[PullTogether73]

I think MJ was the better showman, but I think Prince was a better musician.

Agreed.
And I believe Prince wrote all of his own music.
MJ definitely did not.

[jerrym]

Sadly it's looking increasingly like Prince is another musician who succumbed to drugs.

While the autopsy results for Prince are still pending, reports are coming fast and furious from multiple sources that the late musician had a serious drug problem that spanned many years.
On Tuesday, Minnesota’s Carver County Sheriff’s Office released details of 911 callsthat had come from Prince’s residence, Paisley Park, since 2011, including one in which an unidentified female caller said she was concerned about Prince’s cocaine use.
READ MORE: Prince found with prescription drugs when he died, DEA investigating
Now, the Minneapolis Star Tribune is reporting that Prince died one day before a scheduled appointment with California doctor, Howard Kornfeld, who specializes in opioid addiction and treatment.

http://globalnews.ca/news/2679721/pr...h-drug-doctor/

[KCargosfan]

Sad. Drug-addiction is a bad epidemic. If one has drug issues, I would encourage you to seek some help.

[jerrym]

CNN confirms that Prince died of an overdose of the opioid of fentanyl.

Toxicology tests for Prince concluded that the entertainer died from an accidental overdose of the opioid fentanyl, according to a report on his death by the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/health...ose/index.html

[Ron]

People have this false idea that to die from prescription drugs you need to be addicted. It's not that hard at all to overdose on those super strong drugs they give out these days.

[Double Dare]

Fentanyl is hillbilly heroin ... big in Alberta.

[Wobbler]

People have this false idea that to die from prescription drugs you need to be addicted. It's not that hard at all to overdose on those super strong drugs they give out these days.

Agreed. That's definitely part of the problem.

[jerrym]

As the following Al Jazeera documentary makes clear, opioids, which pharmaceutical companies, in the search for profits have promoted and used in-house research to get approval for are now the biggest drug problem in North America. They have become the biggest drug pushers. Besides the written comments below the website below includes a one hour video on the subject.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/...237180634.html

The United States is in the midst of the worst drug addiction epidemic in its history. But it is not a crisis of illegal drugs, it is one of prescription painkillers.
The US consumes more than 80 percent of the global supply of opioids, and overdoses from prescription opioid drugs kill nearly 17,000 Americans every year, which is one overdose death every 30 minutes.
As the painkiller epidemic has spread, drug company profits from opioids have soared. Over the last 10 years, revenues from opioid painkillers have more than doubled; in 2012 the figure was more than $9bn.
And as the market has grown, so has the incentive to get more and more lucrative drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Dr Andrew Kolodny is an addiction specialist who advocates for reform in opioid drug policy. He says: "They launched a marketing campaign and an educational campaign to convince the medical community that we had been underprescribing opioids. To convince us that we had been allowing patients to suffer needlessly because of what they called an overblown fear of addiction."
In October 2013, the FDA approved a powerful new opioid painkiller called Zohydro over the objections of its own medical advisors and dozens of lawmakers.
So why did the FDA approve Zohydro in the midst of the worst crisis of prescription drug addiction and overdoses in US history?

[jerrym]

Prince's death is symptomatic of a wider problem that is now having a devastating impact in BC where the number of deaths from drugs, including more than half from fentanyl - the same drug that killed Prince - now exceeds deaths in car crashes among youth, causing the provincial health officer to call for a public health emergency to deal with the issue.

Fatal drug overdoses are now killing far more people than car crashes in Abbotsford and across B.C.
Fresh off the worst year for fatal illegal drug overdoses in its history, Abbotsford is on pace to break that gloomy mark in 2016, with eight such deaths already reported through the end of March.
Those numbers echo provincial figures that showed a 30 per cent surge in overdose deaths in 2015 from the previous year. The rate of overdoses has climbed even further through the first three months of 2016, with a staggering 201 people dying through the end of March, prompting provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall to declare a public health emergency last week in an effort to allow officials to better reach those at risk.
Across the province, illegal drugs are now killing many more people than motor vehicle crashes; last year 300 people were killed in accidents involving a motor vehicle, compared to 476 who overdosed on illegal drugs. In Abbotsford, 24 people suffered fatal overdoses in 2015 and the rate of overdose deaths is 70 per cent higher than the provincial number. By comparison, seven people died in motor vehicle accidents.
The scale of the crisis has spurred a call for more education of users who can’t be sure what potentially deadly compounds are contained within the drugs they have bought.

http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/3767...ml?mobile=true