{"id":241668,"date":"2016-08-22T03:02:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T03:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=241668"},"modified":"2016-08-22T03:02:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T03:02:35","slug":"prince-death-powerful-drugs-found-in-singers-home-were-mislabelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/prince-death-powerful-drugs-found-in-singers-home-were-mislabelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince death: Powerful drugs found in singer’s home ‘were mislabelled’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pills seized from the home of singer Prince contained the dangerously powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl but were mislabelled, according to reports.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, officials investigating the artist’s death said the pills were labelled as hydrocodone, a weaker type of opioid.<\/p>\n
Autopsy results released in June revealed Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose.<\/p>\n
Officials told the Associated Press the singer had no prescriptions for controlled substances at the time.<\/p>\n
Prince was found dead at 57 in an elevator inside his Paisley Park home in April.<\/p>\n
According to the Star Tribune report, the musician weighed just 50kg (8 stone) at the time of his death and had significantly more than a fatal dose of fentanyl in his system.<\/p>\n