Prince‘s drug dealer has revealed the full extent of the crippling addiction that afflicted the late pop star.
The music icon was found dead last week in his Paisley Park mansion, and autopsied soon after.
Although an official cause of death is yet to be made public, rumors have persisted he died of a drug overdose brought on by his failing health from his battle with AIDS.
Adding further intrigue to this speculation is Prince’s drug dealer of 25 years, a man with intimate knowledge of the drug habits of the ‘Purple Rain’ crooner.
‘Doctor D’, as the dealer has chosen to be called to protect his anonymity, alleges Prince entertained highly addictive opiates from 1984 to 2008, regularly spending $40,000 per transaction.
The dealer claims he often caters to the stars, and that Prince suffered crippling stage fright that prohibited him from even performing without the mind altering drugs to put him at ease.
He also possessed a phobia of doctors and a religious belief that mistrusted formal medicine, denying him legal access to to prescription drugs.
‘Doctor D’ even went so far as to suggest that once Prince grew ill and was hospitalized that doctors may have unintentionally doomed him by prescribing strong pain killers without knowing the extent of his secret opiate addiction.
Coupled with Prince’s rumored ravaged immune system from the AIDS virus, and it may have been a recipe for disaster.
‘Doctor D’ originally became a Prince associate while working as part of his road crew at a concert.
He soon became his dealer of choice whenever Prince was in the Los Angeles area.
Prince often hired him to work backstage at gigs so he could have a constant supply of drugs without arousing any suspicion from those around him.
Doctor D claims to have watched Prince develop a major tolerance to the drugs over the years – regularly taking two to three times the recommended doses.
He also began to use patches of Fentanyl, a synthetic opioiate approximately 80 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 40 to 50 times more potent than heroin.
The patches can be worn like nicotine patches and provide a 72 hour constant release of the drug through the skin directly into the blood stream.
Needless to say, Prince was a royal addict, and it took death itself to slow him down…
