Quoted from fosaisu:Sad to hear this. The fact that he was addicted to heroin in the 90s makes me question the official story a bit, but it doesn’t really matter. Another great musician lost to opioids.
They never will learn. From Hank Williams all the way to today. Fentanyl is just adding to the list of narcotic killers.
"Medical examiners concluded that musician Prince died on April 21, 2016, from an accidental fentanyl overdose. Fentanyl was among many substances identified in counterfeit pills recovered from his home, especially some that were mislabeled as Watson 385, a combination of hydrocodone and paracetamol. American rapper Lil Peep also died of an accidental fentanyl overdose on November 15, 2017.On January 19, 2018, the medical examiner-coroner for the county of Los Angeles announced that Tom Petty died from an accidental drug overdose as a result of mixing medications that included fentanyl, acetyl fentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl (among others). He was reportedly treating "many serious ailments" that included a broken hip.
In the US, Fentanyl caused 20,100 deaths in 2016, a rise of 540% over the past 3 years."