Prince did not die from pain pills — he died from chronic pain *RAW STORY*

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45. whoa whoa whoa - who didn't give Prince "fair treatment"?

the media? or his doctors? unless I'm missing something, the article alleges the former, not the latter. the article's ancillary data about racial bias in medicine in tangential - there's no evidence yet that his doctors under-prescribed for his chronic pain levels.

if I may speculate:

he had a Percocet prescription. if you take too many and die, or combine it with other opiods or drugs you don't tell the doctor about, and die, you most definitely died of an overdose - and most are accidental (i.e. all the celebrities listed). it wasn't "we" that did it to him.

the only other people with any conceivable role in it were the staff that left him alone with his drugs at 8 pm the night before a drug counselor was due to arrive, 2 days after he'd already overdosed and was revived with Narcan.

it was not the collective "we" that pushed other celebrities over the precipice. that's some next level blame spreading.