Investigation revealed by the Minnesota law-enforcement official on Thursday, 2nd June, 2016 says that music legend Prince Rogers Nelson known as Prince was killed by an accidental self-administered overdose of the powerful painkiller fentanyl.
According to information revealed Prince’s representatives contacted California addiction specialist, Dr. Howard Kornfeld, on April 20 to help the singer. Dr. Kornfeld, sent his son, who is not a physician, to Minnesota to evaluate Prince and get him to enter treatment.
It was gathered that Kornfeld's son was carrying a drug used for what medical term refered to as 'opioid withdrawal', but when he got to Paisley Park, he and staff members found Prince unresponsive. An ambulance rushed Prince to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Reports indicate that Prince had for over a decade used the painkiller Percocet and cocaine, not for kicks but because it helped him to overcome stage fright.
Other school of thoughts believed the late singer had hip problems from years of energetic performances that could have pushed him to take pain medicine.
Prince was found dead in an elevator of his Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, Minnesota, on April 21, 2016, when an employee of a drug rehab in California arrived to see him. he was 57 years of age.