As of today, it is classified as a Schedule I drug and there are no published studies on its safety for human use. It’s important to note that acetyl fentanyl, one of the analogs found in Petty’s system, has not been approved for medical use in the United States. In addition to Prince and Lil Peep’s fentanyl overdoses, we can now add Tom Petty’s name to that list. Fentanyl killed more than 20,000 people in 2016, more than double from the previous year. And unfortunately, it is driving the massive spike in fatal drug overdoses across the United States. Fentanyl, as we know, is one of the deadliest substances out there today. Let’s start with the prescription painkillers.
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The drugs found in Tom Petty’s system were a series of controlled substances: fentanyl and oxycodone, two painkillers alprazolam and temazepam, two benzodiazepines that are used to treat anxiety and insomnia and citalopram, an antidepressant drug. Many people who overdose begin with a legitimate injury or simply do not understand the potency and deadly nature of these medications,” Petty’s family wrote in their official statement. “We hope in some way this report can save lives.
His family believes that, by this time, the pain was so unbearable he loaded up on drugs to subside it.
Unfortunately, it worsened as the weeks went on and, on the day of his death, he was informed the fracture graduated to a full-on break. Tom Petty died just one week after finishing up his 40th anniversary tour with The Heartbreakers – they had a stint of 53 shows, all of which Petty played with a fractured hip. According to the Petty family, the musician was given multiple pain medications, including fentanyl patches, because he was suffering from a multitude of “serious ailments including emphysema, knee problems and most significantly, a fractured hip. Interestingly, however, many of the medications causing Petty’s overdose were ones that had been legally prescribed.
Heroin addiction and prescription opioid abuse go hand-in-hand. Perhaps this is what many fans expected – a relapse, some said, knowing Tom Petty had his toils with heroin addiction in his earlier years. The coroner identified fentanyl, oxycodone, temazepam, alprozolam, citalopram, acetyl fentanyl, and despropionyl fentanyl in his system at the time of death. On Janu– more than 100 days after his passing – the results of Tom Petty’s toxicology report were released: Petty’s cardiac arrest was the direct result of an accidental overdose, caused by mixed drug toxicity. While Tom Petty experienced a long and hard journey with drugs ( Turnbridge shares his story here), his death was not instantly deemed a drug overdose. He died after suffering multiple episodes of cardiac arrest. Just months ago, the world lost iconic musician Tom Petty.
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