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Rumours Tom Petty Dead


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'Refugee', covered that song in my first band. Loved Tom, that four hour documentary on his life and times, recently shown on BBC4 was brilliant. An incredibly humble, and seriously cool dude. RIP to a proper American legend.

 

Yep - great band as well. Campbell criminally underrated - Lynch on vox and drums. 

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Autopsy confirms cause of death wasn't a heart attack but was instead an accidental opiate/fentanyl overdose.

 

Apparently, he had dodgy knees, emphysema and a fractured hip which graduated to a full break in the days before his death. They think this might have been the cause of the overdose.

 

Quite sad really.

Almost exactly the same as Prince. Very sad.
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Massive problem with prescription drugs in America, especially of the opioid variety.

 

Kills at least as many people as guns each year.

I'm probably jumping to conclusions, because I haven't looked into the background of the opioid epidemic, but I suspect that if it's profitable to keep prescribing ever more (and ever more powerful) painkillers, then that's what doctors will do. It's to be expected, if you're following market incentives and if you are encouraged to (at least partially) view your patients as customers.

 

In the NHS, the incentive is to do what's best for the patient, even if that means refusing to give them the drugs they ask for (because you know that they will do more harm than good). Over-prescribing in the UK is caused by the pressures on doctors to get patients out of the clinic in just a couple of minutes, because of chronic (dogma-driven) under-resourcing.

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Opioids are cheaper for insurance companies than fixing the problem and massively profitable for the pharma companies. Doctors incentivised to do the wrong thing and patients getting addicted to dangerous drugs as a result. The US healthcare system and all its stakeholders have a great deal to answer for

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Opioids are cheaper for insurance companies than fixing the problem and massively profitable for the pharma companies. Doctors incentivised to do the wrong thing and patients getting addicted to dangerous drugs as a result. The US healthcare system and all its stakeholders have a great deal to answer for

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"Sounds great!  Bugger the NHS - let's do that instead!"

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Reading and hearing all that about opioids epidemic in the US, I am starting to get suspicious about these accidental therapy overdose explanations.

I don't know anything about Tom Petty but Prince certainly suffered chronic pain in his hips and knees for which, as a Jehovah's Witness, he refused surgery. He was also well known for his abstemious nature with any and all drugs; in his case it was exactly as stated, sadly.
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I don't know anything about Tom Petty but Prince certainly suffered chronic pain in his hips and knees for which, as a Jehovah's Witness, he refused surgery. He was also well known for his abstemious nature with any and all drugs; in his case it was exactly as stated, sadly.

 

Well, his Wikipedia page seems to disagree with that. I admit I have no other knowledge about either of them, or Jackson for that matter, other than a general suspicion that stories about accidental overdoses in the middle of an opiod addiction epidemic might not tell the whole truth.

 

"On April 20, Prince's representatives called Howard Kornfeld, a California specialist in addiction medicine and pain management, seeking medical help for Prince. Kornfeld scheduled to meet with Prince on April 22, and he contacted a local physician who cleared his schedule for a physical examination on April 21.[189][194] On April 21, at 9:43 am, the Carver County Sheriff's Office received a 9-1-1 call requesting that an ambulance be sent to Prince's home at Paisley Park. The caller initially told the dispatcher that an unidentified person at the home was unconscious, then moments later said he was dead, and finally identified the person as Prince.[195] The caller was Kornfeld's son, who had flown in with buprenorphine that morning to devise a treatment plan for opioid addiction.[189] Emergency responders found Prince unresponsive in an elevator and performed CPR, but a paramedic said he had been dead for about six hours,[196] and they were unable to revive him. They pronounced him dead at 10:07 am, 19 minutes after their arrival.[189] There were no signs of suicide or foul play.[189] A press release from the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office in Anoka County on June 2 stated that Prince had died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl,[197] at the age of 57.[198]

It is not yet known whether Prince obtained the fentanyl by a prescription or through an illicit channel.[199] However, the question of how and from what source Prince obtained the drug which led to his death is the subject of investigations by several law enforcement agencies.[190][194][196] A sealed search warrant was issued for his estate,[200] and another, unsealed, warrant was issued for the local Walgreens pharmacy.[201]"

 

 

http://www.startribune.com/addiction-doctor-was-to-have-seen-prince-just-before-his-death/378051471/ seems to be an article where they get most of it from.

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