Editor’s Note: It’s not only counterfeit narcotics that kill. See also here, here, here, here, and here.
From: Daily Beast
PURPLE TEARS
Fake Pain Pills Killed Prince and Thousands More Americans
The singer was an over-the-top icon, but his death from a fentanyl overdose is becoming increasingly common.
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According to reports, the 57-year-old music icon died at his Paisley Park estate, southwest of Minneapolis, on the morning of April 21, 2016, by ingesting a pill he believed to be Vicodin. In fact, the medication was a counterfeit version of the opioid containing the powerful painkiller fentanyl.
