How many TV shows have appeared showing the millions of dollars Prince spent in the black community?

Outside of click bait internet sites and 2:00 min on GMA or CNN nothing.

That needs to be told too.

paisleypearl said:

blizzybiz said:

I know that lots of drugs are cut with fentanyl. But two things; the reported amount of fentanyl found in his system, which they said was enough to kill a homan being of any size, and the fact that there wasn't a rash of other overdoses in the same area. It's logical to assume that if he got it from an illicit, and most likely, local source, that if there was a mistake in cutting the drug, you would have to assume that there would have been a shitload of additional od's. hence my wondering if it wasn't labled as one thing, but contained a lethal dose of fentanyl.

There was at least one other of these fatal dose pills found in among his other drugs and yes it was labeled something other than fentanyl, I can't remember what. We have no way of knowing when Prince got these drugs, he could have had them a long time, he had drugs in his bag and in his closet, who knows where else. We also don't know where he got them, it could have been over the Internet so there would not have to be other local deaths. But there are deaths like this occurring everywhere now.

There are so many over doses occuring every day. I watched a news segment that talked about a hospital in Ohio seeing an average of one over dose a day or something like that. In the area that I live, which is a semi rural area...somebody I work with has a daughter in law who is a nurse and she said they see an average of 10 over doses a day. Not all pain pills, but unfortunatly there is where a lot of the additions to other drugs like heroin start.

laurarichardson said:

morningsong said:

laurarichardson said: Enough people have said it so I don't see how this show could ignore it and not say anything. I stopped saying Travis since the vid disappeared and he hasn't mentioned it since. But he has been friends with him for 20 years.

If you go on YOUTUBE his video with Sway in the morning is still up.

Not the one interviewing about his MJ book? The one I'm thinking of I couldn't find it months ago and gave up. I don't think I really want to see it now. But I trust Travis was telling the truth and he loves Prince so I'm taking his word. Enough will come out in its own time.

mechanicalemotion17 said:

paisleypearl said:

I hope Andre and his family aren't devastated over his decision to speak. Nothing is going to hurt Prince now and folks with half a brain will be watching this program with a grain of salt so to speak. It is painful to see he feels the need to apologize when it is his and others who knew Prince participation in this program that will perhaps give it any humanity at all. No one will ever please all the orgers though, the talkers get dragged, the non talkers get dragged, people get called liars before they've even said anything, Judith tells the truth then gets slammed for not acting as his mother or being a good enough woman to save him from himself. We want answers but only the answers we deem appropriate, the rest should be kept private, so and so can write a book, but others cannot, we want his music to sell but don't talk about the man while you're selling it. No wonder Andre is worried, some crazies out here.

THIS RIGHT HERE!!!!

If I could fit it in my signature I would.

morningsong said:

laurarichardson said:

If you go on YOUTUBE his video with Sway in the morning is still up.

Not the one interviewing about his MJ book? The one I'm thinking of I couldn't find it months ago and gave up. I don't think I really want to see it now. But I trust Travis was telling the truth and he loves Prince so I'm taking his word. Enough will come out in its own time.

In this interview Sway brings up Prince's death and Tavis get upset with Sway and makes it very clear that he was not a recreational users. I know the other one you are talking about that one has disappered but maybe Tavis will write a book about his friendship with Prince.

fielder said:

As a regular Paisley Park attender I had heard several times from people who were friends with staff members that Prince was addicted to pain meds for several years. It was not a secret.

Maybe it was not a secret because he was in pain because a few people who knew him have said that.

Big differnce between being dependent and being strung out. Do I think he had problems in the last months of his life yes I do ( is it because he was addicted or because someone switched out his pills)

If he was going to the pharmacy to pick up actual Rx he had some medical issues that he was not fearful of people knowing about or he would not have picked them up. You can have non-controlled substances mailed to your house.

Something else was going on with health and for some reason the media does not report on this at all.

muleFunk said:

fielder said:

As a regular Paisley Park attender I had heard several times from people who were friends with staff members that Prince was addicted to pain meds for several years. It was not a secret.

Addicted or using these medications is not the point with me.

I personally know several people who are dependent on these meds. I know one that died from using a sinus medication with a pain med.

The point here is the fact that every time a big event or anniversary comes up with Prince someone with power decides to put something in the media just to remind you that he was using drugs to discredit his memory. This has happened EVERYTIME in the last 9 months.

The lead song off his last album was Baltimore which was an anthem against police brutality. How many songs has Prince written in this century against the system?

The fact he was found in a elevator should be ringing alarm bells because most ODs of this type were found in bed or in a relaxed position.

I am now of the opinion that these fentanyl laced pills were introduced surreptitiously and caused his appearence to change and then he knew that something was wrong and set upon correcting the problem and bam he's dead.

"The fact he was found in a elevator should be ringing alarm bells because most ODs of this type were found in bed or in a relaxed position."

Something people keep ingnoring. He even had a song up in his studio that he was working on and plans to do more shows. I think he had been taking these things for a while and was managing fine until he got a bad batch. I do not care what anyone thinks Doctor contact you directly when something is wrong with your medical test. I have been in this situation they do not tell you on the phone they want to see you in person.

I think Dr. S was going to tell him he was being posioned with another med not the Wastson 355 he thought he was taking and possibly weaning himself from.

[Edited 2/13/17 10:43am]

Still think those pills were switched on Prince. He himself would not have known as they were made to look like medication.
Wonder if the prescription he picked up was what got switched with the fentanyl laced Watson pills? He would have thought that is what the meds looked like if he never had the prescription before.

PurpleDiamonds1 said:

--They said he did not have an Rx in the state of Minnesota for 2016. They never said if he an Rx in previous years or if he had an RX for the Watson Pills in the past. I think he had been taking the Watson's for a while and that is what he thougt he was taking.

laurarichardson said:

Tyka could clear this up and we wouldn't have to wait for the media or the police investigation or 30 years to go by when we could all see the complete reports. Tyka has all the answers right now. Tyka could clear this whole speculative mess up right now.

She said she knew for a year that he was going to die, she expected it, it wasn't a surprise when she got that phone call. Maybe we could quit blaming his 20 something year old girlfriends for his death and take a peek at his middle aged sister and wonder where the hell she was when it came time to help him. I've got a brother and I wouldn't be hoping his employees or girlfriends come to his rescue when I know he is sick.
[Edited 2/14/17 6:00am]

PurpleDiamonds1 said:

Still think those pills were switched on Prince. He himself would not have known as they were made to look like medication. Wonder if the prescription he picked up was what got switched with the fentanyl laced Watson pills? He would have thought that is what the meds looked like if he never had the prescription before.

This is entirely possible, but I don't think that if someone did switch the pills that they knew they were switching with fentanyl. Maybe they were trying to replace ones they had taken without permission. (Just a theory).

What I really think happened is that Prince got hooked on his pain pills in the past few years, they stopped making the legitimate pills and he started to get them off of the black market. Everything was ok until he got a bad batch.

tmo1965 said:

I think you are 100 percent right except why he switched to black market. I think his doctor refused to prescribe the pills because he knew he was addicted. His doc may have been pushing him to rehab so Prince was shopping doctors, but eventually it came to a screeching halt, eventually the shit hit the fan. He could have tried hip replacements, cortisone shots, physical therapy, retirement.

Here is something else regarding my thoughts on someone switching pills....someone knew about the fentanyl Laced pills Prince was going to take before he took them.
When Phaedra called Dr K from Cali he sent his son with a (s.)drug in a backpack to "help" Prince....so how did she know he was going to be gravely ill before the 20th?

PurpleDiamonds1 said:

--The only person who would have known if Prince was gravely ill would have been Dr.S who still felt the need to run test with results not avalible until April 21st. In the meantime Prince does not return to Paisley Park until 8:00 pm do the gravely ill man was out all day. In the meantime if this was an intervention Prince may not have even known Dr K was sending his son who broke about a half a dozen laws but was not charged with anything which no one finds strange.

paisleypearl said:

//He may have switched to the black market because the Watson 355 were discontinued in 2015. The manufacturer said if any where left around they would have expired in Oct 2015. So if he were taking the real Watson 355 they would have been weak. He could also been cut off due to organ problems that these pills cause if he had organ issues know Doctor would prescribe him any pain meds. Do some research on joint pain none of the things you mentioned are gurranteed to stop pain and there are people saying he had chiropractor bench in his room which could have meant back and neck pain. Do not assume that someone if his means was not trying other therapies and remember that 65k line item for medical expenses that would not be for illegal drugs.

paisleypearl said:

It could be that nothing could be done. Tyka was at the party with him that Saturday I think she knew his days were numbered and there was nothing left to do.

laurarichardson said:

But it was Phaedra that called dr k who sent Andrew...who knew before anyone the pills were going to do this to P.
I doubt the intervention story is true but let's say that was going to happen the story above really makes no sense and why call a dr from Cali known for doing more harm than good. If the people involved wanted him to to see a dr why did they pick a known bad one and not one of the best specialists? Not directing the above ? at you just saying a thought...
[Edited 2/14/17 9:59am]

PurpleDiamonds1 said:

-- The whole thing is stupid. You cannot force someone into rehab it has to be voluntary and why not say up a intervention with someone from Hazeldon which is close to Paisley Park and he had then Tyka to a few years ago. People he might had a connection to and I am sure they could have come out to meet so nobody would know. I still do not understand what Dr.S was running a test for. Do you need to run a test to tell you someone is addicted to drugs especially when he had been seeing the doctor for a few weeks.
[Edited 2/14/17 11:58am]

Agree makes no sense. I think P wanted to know why he was feeling not well and maybe what went wrong on the plane.

laurarichardson said:

There are things she can do right now to get his fans out of this river of denial, and there is a law protecting 911 callers from prosecution, and the doctor's son was simply in possession of drugs, he didn't give them to anyone. Tyka being at the party Saturday is even more maddening because it's not like Prince and she were estranged.

And RIGHT NOW she could put a stop to rumors and ugly speculation, she might even help save some lives if she uses her position to bring focus to this deadly epidemic.

laurarichardson said:

PurpleDiamonds1 said:

But it was Phaedra that called dr k who sent Andrew...who knew before anyone the pills were going to do this to P. I doubt the intervention story is true but let's say that was going to happen the story above really makes no sense and why call a dr from Cali known for doing more harm than good. If the people involved wanted him to to see a dr why did they pick a known bad one and not one of the best specialists? Not directing the above ? at you just saying a thought... [Edited 2/14/17 9:59am]

-- The whole thing is stupid. You cannot force someone into rehab it has to be voluntary and why not say up a intervention with someone from Hazeldon which is close to Paisley Park and he had then Tyka to a few years ago. People he might had a connection to and I am sure they could have come out to meet so nobody would know. I still do not understand what Dr.S was running a test for. Do you need to run a test to tell you someone is addicted to drugs especially when he had been seeing the doctor for a few weeks. [Edited 2/14/17 11:58am]

I don't get why people seem to think that you can make a person do something that they don't want to do. I can't blame those around him if he refused their advice. Many on this site, say that someone should have been with him at all times after the plane incident, but what if he told everyone who offered to stay with him that he did not want them there. What could they have done? We all saw for ourselves how Prince was telling everyone that he was OK.

tmo1965 said:

I so agree. There is nothing anyone could do if Prince doesn't doesn't want them around. I'm kinda like that myself. If someone is trying to force something on me, friend or family member I'd bar them from my life.

They told the doctor they called that he was critically ill, since the doc is an addiction specialist, it is easy to assume that the critical condition was related to drug addiction. If someone I loved was in this situation, I would have done anything, as I am sure most of us would, and while you can not force someone into treatment, you can safe guard their life with a 51/50, that would have given the doctors 72 hours to evaluate him, and who knows what would have happened...and yes he is famous and poweful, but their are plenty of famous people who's families got down and dirty and saved the life of their person.

What people are also missing here is that if he was a long term abuser of these drugs the tests on his liver and kidneys would have shown it. From what I found out it did not.

That goes back to these Fake Vicodin pills and the amounts that were supposedly found at PP.

There was no prescriptions found in his name in the United States in over a year. No evidence of doctor shopping.

So I have these conclusions....

It's possible that he could have gotten these pills in a foreign country and these medications were not screened properly and were laced with Fentanyl.

or

He got these pills via the black market in the USA

or

He was poisoned via the Fentanyl gas and someone planted the pills. Before you come out with the laughter Fentanyl has been used to assassinate people. The Russians are well known for doing it.

Needless to say I think he was taking these pills as needed and they were laced and he never knew it or thought he was getting dependent and sought help.

The nagging thing to me is that he died on the way to get the help and that's been bothering me since April 21. It's like someone didn't want him to get helped.

LOVESYMBOLNUMBER2 said:

They told the doctor they called that he was critically ill, since the doc is an addiction specialist, it is easy to assume that the critical condition was related to drug addiction. If someone I loved was in this situation, I would have done anything, as I am sure most of us would, and while you can not force someone into treatment, you can safe guard their life with a 51/50, that would have given the doctors 72 hours to evaluate him, and who knows what would have happened...and yes he is famous and poweful, but their are plenty of famous people who's families got down and dirty and saved the life of their person.

I hear you. Fifteen years ago, I did a 51/50 for a parent. I did other interventions as well. I'm extremely lucky and grateful, as my parent is now doing well.

I'm not challenging anything you are saying, but I just want to add that the system and the odds are tough for families. Again, I was very lucky. As you probably know, power of families is very limited, and resources are extremely thin.

In the end, many, many people who lose a family member in these sorts of circumstances worked tirelessly to try to save that person.

Of course, issues of how to best support chances of long term recovery, and health of all involved, are also very complicated.

I'm guessing you know all of this, and again, I'm not challenging your comments. I just want to add that the way the way the system works, and the scarcity of resources in this area of medicine, make for a bleak situation for many families.

I think I'm the only one who wants to know what really happened

LOVESYMBOLNUMBER2 said:

They told the doctor they called that he was critically ill, since the doc is an addiction specialist, it is easy to assume that the critical condition was related to drug addiction. If someone I loved was in this situation, I would have done anything, as I am sure most of us would, and while you can not force someone into treatment, you can safe guard their life with a 51/50, that would have given the doctors 72 hours to evaluate him, and who knows what would have happened...and yes he is famous and poweful, but their are plenty of famous people who's families got down and dirty and saved the life of their person.

Who is they? I would hope that Dr. K spoke to Dr. S because no one else would no what they were talking about and remember patients have to give permission to have their medical stituation discussed with another Doctor. In addtion, no one has answered my question about a gravely ill person leaving his premisis and not coming back until 8:00pm. How gravely ill was he?

muleFunk said:

What people are also missing here is that if he was a long term abuser of these drugs the tests on his liver and kidneys would have shown it. From what I found out it did not.

That goes back to these Fake Vicodin pills and the amounts that were supposedly found at PP.

There was no prescriptions found in his name in the United States in over a year. No evidence of doctor shopping.

So I have these conclusions....

It's possible that he could have gotten these pills in a foreign country and these medications were not screened properly and were laced with Fentanyl.

or

He got these pills via the black market in the USA

or

He was poisoned via the Fentanyl gas and someone planted the pills. Before you come out with the laughter Fentanyl has been used to assassinate people. The Russians are well known for doing it.

Needless to say I think he was taking these pills as needed and they were laced and he never knew it or thought he was getting dependent and sought help.

The nagging thing to me is that he died on the way to get the help and that's been bothering me since April 21. It's like someone didn't want him to get helped.

Interesting about what you say about the test because we know Dr. S did run test and prescribe RXs for Prince. If not for organ function what do you think the test were for. Also several people have said he was not a recreational drug user and that they knew he was taking pain meds. I do not believe he was abusing these drugs for years and I do think he thought taking Watson 355 and I think he had been taking them for a while and then he got a bad batch of pills that started making him very ill and I think that is what those test that Dr. S ran might have been four.

paisleypearl said:

laurarichardson said:

It could be that nothing could be done. Tyka was at the party with him that Saturday I think she knew his days were numbered and there was nothing left to do.

There are things she can do right now to get his fans out of this river of denial, and there is a law protecting 911 callers from prosecution, and the doctor's son was simply in possession of drugs, he didn't give them to anyone. Tyka being at the party Saturday is even more maddening because it's not like Prince and she were estranged. And RIGHT NOW she could put a stop to rumors and ugly speculation, she might even help save some lives if she uses her position to bring focus to this deadly epidemic.

Tyka may say something after the Probate closes. Give her time. As far as Dr. K son is concerned possesion of controlled substances, bring drugs across state lines and distrubution are serious crimes.

I find it mind boggling he and his crazy ass father are getting a pass. What compentent Dr. would do such a thing. The only thing Dr. K could have done was consult and reccomend a center close to Prince. I think he saw big dollars and if you check on his rehab/pain management practice there have been serious complaints about that facilty and treatement.

I think the people around Prince meant well but suspect they had no real idea what they were doing and should let medical decisions be made by Dr. S.

laurarichardson said:

100% agree, I think the dr. K should have done more than recommend a local addiction dr. He should have emplored princes people to do so, right now this minute, and to not contact a local dr could be a fatal mistake. No matter what was actually happening with the drug use, and who was supplying the drugs, dr.k absolutely contributed to the horrible out come, and I am surprised and sickened that he was not held responsible, how is that not malpractice? And i agree that he was more than likely jazzed by the high profile potential.