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"Minnesota Star- Prince was scheduled to meet addiction DR the next day"


  

          

Possibly unbeknownst to prince?

Dude on the 911 recording was the specialist's son, who had just arrived

And a leak from the report says percocet was found

PRINCE
http://m.startribune.com/addiction-doctor-was-to-have-seen-prince-just-before-his-death/378051471/

Prince died amid frantic plans for drug addiction treatment

Balloons, flowers and other mementos were attached to the fence and trees surrounding Paisley Park in Chanhassen in honor of the memory of Prince.Balloons, flowers and other mementos were attached to the fence and trees surrounding Paisley Park in Chanhassen in honor of the memory of Prince.
Carlos Gonzalez, Star Tribune
By DAVID CHANEN , STAR TRIBUNE
May 04, 2016 - 3:29 PM

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Prince was found dead one day before he was scheduled to meet with a California doctor in an attempt to kick an addiction to painkillers, an attorney with knowledge of the death investigation said Tuesday.

Dr. Howard Kornfeld, a national authority on opioid addiction treatment, was called by Prince representatives the night of April 20 because Prince “was dealing with a grave medical emergency,” said William Mauzy, a prominent Minneapolis attorney working with the Kornfeld family.

Kornfeld, who runs Recovery Without Walls in Mill Valley, Calif., could not clear his schedule to meet with Prince the next day, April 21, but he planned to fly out the following day.

So he sent his son, Andrew Kornfeld, who works with him, to Minnesota, with plans for him to go to Paisley Park to explain how the confidential treatment would work, Mauzy said.

“The plan was to quickly evaluate his health and devise a treatment plan,” Mauzy said, speaking on behalf of the Kornfelds. “… The doctor was planning on a lifesaving mission.”

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Several other sources with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed Mauzy’s account. Calls and e-mails to the Kornfelds were not returned Tuesday evening.

Andrew Kornfeld was expected to meet with Prince early Thursday after taking a red-eye flight from San Francisco the night Prince’s representatives called, Mauzy said.


When Andrew Kornfeld arrived at Paisley Park at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Prince’s representatives could not find him, Mauzy said. Andrew Kornfeld was one of three people at Paisley Park when the musician’s body was found in an elevator a few minutes later — and it was Andrew Kornfeld who called 911.

Mauzy said that Andrew Kornfeld told him that the others “screamed” when they found Prince and “were in too much shock” to call 911.

Unfamiliar with Paisley Park, Andrew Kornfeld simply told the dispatcher, “We’re at Prince’s house.”

Asked again to give an address, he said simply: “The people are just distraught. … We’re in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and we are at the home of Prince.”

Emergency responders arrived within five minutes. Prince was pronounced dead at 10:07 a.m., 19 minutes after responders arrived.

Authorities said Prince was alone when his body was found. Foul play and suicide are not suspected. Autopsy results, which will include toxicology tests, are pending.

Within days of Prince’s death, sources told the Star Tribune that his use of painkillers, which were found at the scene, had become the focus of the investigation. As part of their probe, investigators are trying to determine where Prince got the pills and who provided them.

While authorities have characterized their work as a criminal investigation, that doesn’t mean that it will result in charges.

After he was first contacted by Prince’s representatives, Howard Kornfeld requested that a Twin Cities physician check on Prince and stabilize him, sources said.


It was hoped that Prince would agree to go to California for long-term care under Kornfeld’s supervision, which would include round-the-clock nursing support, Mauzy said.

Prince’s representatives called Howard Kornfeld because of his reputation as a nationally known addiction researcher, Mauzy said.

According to Howard Kornfeld’s business website, Recovery Without Walls is a “personalized outpatient clinic, specializing in innovative, evidence-based medical treatment for chronic pain and drug and alcohol addiction.” It says that the clinic’s medical team “works together to resolve problems that other clinicians have found difficult, if not impossible to solve.”

Howard Kornfeld also is known as an advocate for the expanded use of Suboxone, which contains buprenorphine and curbs opioid cravings. The drug has been underutilized, in part, because many doctors haven’t completed the federal training that is necessary to prescribe it.

Andrew Kornfeld had a small amount of buprenorphine to give to Prince. However, it was never administered, Mauzy said.

He added that Andrew Kornfeld gave the medication to Carver County investigators, who later interviewed him and the two others — whom Mauzy identified only as Prince staffers — who were at Paisley Park when the body was found.

Six days before Prince was found dead, his private plane was returning to Minneapolis after two concerts in Atlanta when it made an emergency landing in Moline, Ill. Sources with direct knowledge of the investigation have said that the landing occurred because Prince was overdosing on opioids.

Prince’s bodyguard carried him to waiting paramedics at the airport and he was given a shot of the opioid antidote Narcan. He was taken to a hospital, but left within a few hours against medical advice.

Carver County Chief Deputy Jason Kamerud declined to comment Tuesday about the investigation.

Tyka Nelson, Prince’s sister, who in recent days has led the appointment of a special administrator to oversee his estate, also declined to discuss her brother’s death Tuesday.

“I have nothing to say,” she said.



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Minnesota Star- Prince was scheduled to meet addiction DR the next day [View all] , Riot, Thu May-05-16 09:08 AM
 
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why is Dead zombie #monster# post invisible?
May 05th 2016
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No monster, prince and MJ just couldn't deal with the pain
May 05th 2016
2
      He was so private, we didn't know about the coke addiction
May 05th 2016
3
           We don't know yet that the coke thing is real
May 05th 2016
4
           he died of the same thing MJ did
May 05th 2016
5
                and that is the tragedy. nm
May 05th 2016
7
                Both were EXTREMELY private beings. RIP
May 05th 2016
8
                you think putting RIP gives permission to gossip?
May 05th 2016
10
                Sinead Oconnor also said his eyes turned completely black while
May 06th 2016
14
                     they were hanging out with MaryAnn from True Blood
May 06th 2016
22
                     Love Sinead's voice but she's a toon.
May 06th 2016
26
                this is the saddest part of it for me
May 06th 2016
19
           Coke isn't even physically addictive.
May 05th 2016
6
                'pain'
May 05th 2016
9
                If you're using 'pain' in the general sense than cool.
May 05th 2016
11
                     i think your dismissal of physical pain is bullshit but
May 05th 2016
12
                          The more pain meds you use for pain the more pain you have.
May 05th 2016
13
                Distinction is bw painkillers and the Chris Farley, hearth ledger, Elvis...
May 06th 2016
15
                IRT reply 11, ODs on percs are very rare, and as illustrated by you exam...
May 06th 2016
16
                You don't die from AIDS you die from an infection because of AIDS
May 06th 2016
17
                RE: Awareness
May 06th 2016
18
                     Right on.
May 06th 2016
24
                Exactly.
May 06th 2016
23
                I just don't think that distinction helps any of us.
May 06th 2016
31
                eh. its not really about being respectful
May 08th 2016
35
                     People can't appreciate chronic pain until they experience
May 08th 2016
43
                     How about how healthcare is botched/mismanaged PERIOD.
May 08th 2016
46
                     Minus well absolve the people making $$ off of it til we fix it n/m
May 08th 2016
50
                     There's a logic gap I can't get my head around here.
May 08th 2016
54
                          as informed as your speculation may be it's still speculatio
May 08th 2016
55
                               I wouldn't rule out pain as a 'root'
May 08th 2016
56
                                    you keep saing the same shit
May 08th 2016
58
I think that addiction doc killed him
May 06th 2016
20
I do think there's something fishy
May 06th 2016
21
Oh, it's fishy! Some shit don't add up...
May 06th 2016
25
      That certainly seems plausible.
May 06th 2016
27
           I betcha he was scared to take any more percs but had to take something
May 06th 2016
28
                My speculation is that he was doing too many percs
May 06th 2016
29
                     I didn't think of that...
May 06th 2016
30
                     Yah.
May 06th 2016
32
                     all of this is so sad... and so scary.
May 07th 2016
33
                          Fucking Purdue.
May 07th 2016
34
                               This is standard pharma practice tho.
May 08th 2016
36
                                    its standard unethical practice
May 08th 2016
37
                                    Opdivo was fasttracked by the FDA because it showed such gerat promise
May 08th 2016
38
                                    *this is the part that is unethical*
May 08th 2016
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                                         RE: *this is the part that is unethical*
May 08th 2016
41
                                              It's horrendously unethical = bad thing
May 08th 2016
42
                                              Without no disease there is no demand.
May 08th 2016
44
                                                   Say that hypertension is the result of a high stress environment
May 08th 2016
47
                                                        ahhhhhh you on something entirely different. I feel you tho.
May 08th 2016
49
                                                             Having a convoy with you is mad frustrating fam
May 08th 2016
52
                                                                  Whoa! Mind blown.
May 08th 2016
57
                                              RE: *this is the part that is unethical*
May 08th 2016
45
                                                   RE: *this is the part that is unethical*
May 08th 2016
48
                                                        the very definition of an rct
May 08th 2016
51
                                    Wait...
May 08th 2016
39
                                    It's not standard pharma practise to lie about addiction risks.
May 08th 2016
53

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