Prince Killed by Chinese Drug Company?
On April 21, 2016, another American artist died of a drug overdose. This time, the artist was Prince and he was likely a victim of illicit Chinese fentanyl manufacturing. The drug was found in unmarked prescription bottles and a government lab analysis later confirmed the drugs identity. Fentanyl belongs to the opioid class of drugs, however, it doesn’t come from any naturally occurring plant. Instead, it’s synthetically made and according to a recent United States Senate investigation, China has become one of the largest sources of the illicit drug.
According to the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Report, China is the largest exporter of fentanyl to the United States. The majority of illicit fentanyl smuggled into the United States originates in China, sometimes in the form of precursors that are shipped to Mexico or Canada and mixed with other narcotics before being sent across the border into the United States. Until recently, the production of fentanyl was unregulated in China. Over the course of 2017, China banned several fentanyl-derivatives including both carfentanil, a lethal opioid 100 times more potent than fentanyl, and U-47700, a synthetic opioid also known as “pink.”
Fentanyl is 25 to 50 times more potent than heroin and 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration. Details of the public toxicity report reveal just how “exceedingly high” the quantities of fentanyl were and how deadly the narcotic can be, even if prescribed to treat severe pain. In Prince’s body, there were 67.8 micrograms of fentanyl per liter of blood—many deaths have occurred at just three micrograms per liter of blood. In addition, his liver contained 450 micrograms of fentanyl per kilogram, well over the level of what would be considered cause for “fatal toxicity,” which includes any amount of fentanyl over 69 micrograms per kilogram. The report suggests that Prince took a variety of painkillers orally—hence the fentanyl in his stomach—which then circulated throughout his liver and blood before he died.
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