Another loss in Stevie's musical circle

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Originally Posted by Newzchspy

I only asked because it was a BIG thing when he passed (first seemed like natural causes) & suddenly, it seems that the media suppressed the "real cause" of the heart attack which was drugs. Its no mystery that he was drug-addled for many years.

I don't think the media suppressed anything; they were told the medics responded and he wasn't breathing and his heart had stopped. It was the medical examiner who concluded all the pain meds would have caused what they saw-- the no breathing, no heartbeat-- after doing a full examination. The family was very forthcoming in putting that finding out there.

Sadly though this wasn't him taking drugs to get high or partying.. this was a senior citizen with a broken hip taking meds prescribed by his doctors for managing the pain due to the hip. Big fault on them for prescribing such meds to a person with a known history of addiction to opioids (heroin) and for giving him prescriptions of so many drugs in such high amounts. It's like giving and alcoholic a key to the alcohol cabinet and saying, just take one glass a day.