Court documents unsealed Monday shed new light on Prince's opioid addiction, suggesting the pop star hid painkillers in over-the-counter vitamin and aspirin bottles, reports The New York Times.
Prince Rogers Nelson, the musician commonly known as Prince, died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl in April 2016.
Here are four things to know.
1. Court documents show authorities found "a sizable amount" of narcotic painkillers in Prince's Minnesota home and recording compound, none of which he had prescriptions for, according to the report.
2. Some of the painkillers were hidden in over-the-counter vitamin and aspirin bottles. At least one opioid prescription was issued with the name of one of Prince's friends and employees, Kirk Johnson, NYT reports.
3. The unsealed documents included a search warrant in which Michael Todd Schulenberg, MD, said he wrote an Oxycodone prescription for Prince under Mr. Johnson's name for the sake of privacy, according to CNN. However, Dr. Schulenberg's attorney put out a statement Monday, saying his client denied prescribing opioids to Prince or "any other person with the intent that they would be given to Prince," according to the report.
4. Authorities have yet to determine exactly where Prince got the fentanyl, a drug the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration deems roughly 80 times more potent than morphine, NYT reports. Authorities have not charged anyone in Prince's death, either.
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