purplethunder3121 said:

It looks like the reports from the Star Tribune are true. The story is on my local news with a local intervention connection reported. Too little too late. I'm watching it with the volume off. That's all I need to know.

tiggerlane said:

morningsong said:

It's what Spike Lee brought up on the panel. I had a feeling we would hear echos of what was said on the panel popping up in the media. Did you watch it?

[Edited 5/4/16 16:47pm]

I haven't seen the panel...I will say that Dr. Drew does seem to be outlining different reasons someone might have a need to use these continually, and not be considered an addict or have addictive tendencies. Just so heartbreaking, regardless. [Edited 5/4/16 17:01pm]

There's was a thread for it around these parts. Watch it. I had to watch it twice to make sure what I was listening to.


But in it they made reference to how Prince honed his craft because of the isolation of Minneapolis. Then they talked about his mother issues and the abandonment of his parents.

I reminded of Prince's Pearls Before the Swine....it fits now In 13 days he's been called some things I'd never thought I'd hear about him

If it is true that Prince was forced to go on pain meds because of unbearable pain and succumbed to them in the end, I just hope the swine press and public remember that he spent most of his life health conscious and substance-free. And how this is a reminder of how vulnerable everyone is in this life...no matter who you are. "There but for the grace of God go I."

tiggerlane said:

PeteSilas said:

sonshine said:

purplethunder3121 said:

If it is true that Prince was forced to go on pain meds because of unbearable pain and succumbed to them in the end, I just hope the swine press and public remember that he spent most of his life health conscious and substance-free. And how this is a reminder of how vulnerable everyone is in this life...no matter who you are. "There but for the grace of God go I."

Agreed.

purplethunder3121 said:

If it is true that Prince was forced to go on pain meds because of unbearable pain and succumbed to them in the end, I just hope the swine press and public remember that he spent most of his life health conscious and substance-free. And how this is a reminder of how vulnerable everyone is in this life...no matter who you are. "There but for the grace of God go I."

Amen

EVERYBODY who helped Prince acquire illegal prescriptions and drugs should be charged. STUPIDITY and 'just following the Boss's orders' are poor excuses.

funksterr said:

SoulAlive said:

I still just say, that one night, what could he have done to anybody? What? This is Prince we're talking about. Get a shotgun? pfft What? Yell at somebody? Oh big deal Call the police? yeah right

headtripparade said:

SoulAlive said:

I somewhat agree.I am sick and tired of these "enablers/yes men" not doing anything to prevent tragedies like this from happening.It was a similiar situation with Michael Jackson.It pisses me off.These people need to be held accountable for the role they played in this tragedy.

Okay, let's assume these "yes men" do stand up to someone like Prince. What makes you think for one second that he wouldn't fire them on the spot? So he fires his whole team because they tried to control him and tell him what to do and tell him what he doesn't want to hear and he ends up alone anyway. And they couldn't hang around because at that point they'd be fired and therefore trespassing on his property and he could call the police should he so choose. This grand intervention of his entire team taking his health into consideration and doing the right thing just doesn't exist. You cannot rule an individual by compulsion, Prince or not.

I've never read a piece lauding Elvis' guys for making his drug abuse public before he died. They were referenced as thugs and lowlifes in a post here just today I think. One can pick apart their book and motives but the fact remains, they did it, and I've never seen anyone in that position treated well by the public or media for intervening. If a celeb wants to keep abusing, all the person can do is go public, either to the media or in a book, and they are castigated and called disgruntled liars and leeches and vultures who are doing it for the money 100% of the time.

SoulAlive said:

headtripparade said:

SoulAlive said:

I somewhat agree.I am sick and tired of these "enablers/yes men" not doing anything to prevent tragedies like this from happening.It was a similiar situation with Michael Jackson.It pisses me off.These people need to be held accountable for the role they played in this tragedy.

Okay, let's assume these "yes men" do stand up to someone like Prince. What makes you think for one second that he wouldn't fire them on the spot? So he fires his whole team because they tried to control him and tell him what to do and tell him what he doesn't want to hear and he ends up alone anyway. And they couldn't hang around because at that point they'd be fired and therefore trespassing on his property and he could call the police should he so choose. This grand intervention of his entire team taking his health into consideration and doing the right thing just doesn't exist. You cannot rule an individual by compulsion, Prince or not. [Edited 5/4/16 18:30pm]

I don't care about their jobs and careers or whatever. The scenario you descibe is exactly why there should be charges. You have allegations of people doing things waaaay outside the law, and outside the boundaries of good sense, just to keep their hook-up with the global superstar. Screw 'em.

Eileen said:

funksterr said:

headtripparade said:

funksterr said:

spastic78 said:

spastic78 said:

I actually think that the two "others" who first found him and didn't provide CPR but went into hysterics instead should be charged.

There is no legal duty for a civilian, even if an employee, to provide CPR or provide medical care.

headtripparade said:

spastic78 said:

headtripparade said:

spastic78 said:

Eileen said:

gatorgirl said:

This OD stuff isn't making sense. Polypharmscy is more of an issue and there is no evidence he was taking numerous medications.

This is certainly not evidence and may have been entirely invented. There was a comment left on one of the TMZ articles from someone who posted very specific details about the prescriptions that were picked up at Walgreens. I won't paste it here, but the poster listed multiple prescriptions each for Percocet, Loratab, Ambien, and Xanax.

Dang!

The "two others" were screaming and distraught and in no position to be providing CPR to the obviously dead body of the employer/friend they had unwittingly stumbled across.

I know somewhere it was noted that the attorney kept saying "unconscious," however he also slipped once and said "dead" and in the 911 call his client also did say that Prince was dead, in addition to unconscious.

headtripparade said:

psychodelicide said:

Eileen said:

This is certainly not evidence and may have been entirely invented. There was a comment left on one of the TMZ articles from someone who posted very specific details about the prescriptions that were picked up at Walgreens. I won't paste it here, but the poster listed multiple prescriptions each for Percocet, Loratab, Ambien, and Xanax.

Dang!

ya i saw that too, who knows if it's real or not.