Fentanyl found in pills at Prince estate, official says

In the months that followed, more information has revealed the tragic final days of Prince’s life.

Minnesota defense attorney Joe Tamburino isn’t connected to the case, but says the pills were likely obtained illegally.

At this time, it is reported that investigators believe that Prince was unaware that the pills contained fentanyl.

“This is becoming a trend”, according to the DEA’s report, “not a series of isolated incidents”.

According to CNN, fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine.

Fentanyl, when properly prescribed by a doctor, is a drug approved for managing severe chronic pain.

However tests on Prince prior to his death didn’t show fentanyl in his system, meaning it was unlikely he was a longtime abuser of that particular drug.

“It is all too common for people to overdose if they are taking a combination of a benzodiazepine and an opioid”, Pinsky said. How did Prince acquire the drug?

The federal agency said that hundreds of thousands of counterfeit painkiller pills were on the USA market, many containing fentanyl that was mass-produced in labs in China.

Several pills recovered from the Purple Rain singer’s mansion were counterfeit drugs which contained the opioid fentanyl, the drug which killed him, according to officials.

The tablets were found in a dressing room at Paisley Park, Prince’s studio complex and home just outside Minneapolis.

He was discovered dead inside of an elevator in the complex.

Pop star and Minnesota native Prince died from an accidental overdose of the prescription painkiller Fentanyl in April.

Prince only weighed 112 pounds at the time of his death, but the source said autopsy results found there was enough fentanyl in his body to have killed anyone, regardless of their size.

The Huffington Post has reached out to a representative for Prince and the Carver County Sheriff Office and will update this post accordingly. In reality, they contained a drug so powerful that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls it a “threat to public health and safety”.