I feel like I'm coming to a place of acceptance about Prince's passing, still angry at times though. What I'm trying to make sense of is the addiction side of things. It seems like this is not something that happened all of a sudden, but that it's more likely to have spiralled over a period of time - potentially years.

I don't know much about opioid addiction, and it saddens me to think that a medication he took for pain (and hopefully it was for pain, and not some of the seedier stories the press has touted), ended up taking his life. What I have read recently would suggest that opioids make you sleepy, slurry, slow down all bodily systems.
Yet Prince was NEVER off his game live, and we all know what a workaholic he was, and he hardly slept. This doesn't sit with the side effects of opioids - they would almost have the opposite effect. Hence my confusion. Was his body just so used to them that he was entirely functional?

Now, I'm not doubting the cause of death at all, I'm just wondering how he managed to maintain his life at such a high pace and level whilst all this was going on in the background. It just doesn't seem possible that he could have been as sharp and amazing as he always was if he was an opioid addict, but maybe he was just really clever about hiding it.

I suppose it doesn't really matter now in the great scheme of things, and more credit to Prince for remaining the consummate professional he always was whilst battling this problem. I'm just confused about how he managed to conceal this so well and carry on.

please post this in the Sticky:BREAKING NEWS: Prince died of an opioid overdose: law enforcement official

Thanks