Prince Missed Suboxone Lifeboat by 12 Hours

One of the links from this page connects to the ‘OD Report‘.  I set up the connection to highlight the epidemic of overdose deaths, not to sensationalize the issue.  But the Prince story is sensational and tragic at the same time. And the connection to buprenorphine only magnifies the tragic circumstances that are wrapped around the use of a potentially-life-saving medication. I read some time ago about Prince’s chronic pain problems, primarily involving his hips and secondary to years of dancing in high-heeled shoes.  Shortly after his death, TMZ reported that Prince’s plane made an emergency stop in Moline Illinois on his way home from Atlanta.  They reported that he received Narcan at the airport after landing, and then was treated and released at the hospital before flying home to Minneapolis.  TMZ later reported that Prince was taking large amounts of prescription opioids that contributed to his death. The OD Report contains newsfeeds about opioid overdose.  An article published today describes the circumstances surrounding the discovery of Prince’s body by Andrw Kornfeld, the son of an addiction doc from Mill Valley, California.   According to the article, an emergency addiction treatment plan was arranged with a program called ‘Recovery Without Walls’ based in Mill Valley, California.   The physician who founded and medically directs that program, Dr. Howard Kornfeld, was not able to make it to Prince and instead sen...
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