The doctor who prescribed painkillers to Prince just before his death will have to pay more than $ 4,000 in fines. The interpreter of Purple Rain died at 57 years old on April 21, 2016 from an accidental overdose of Fentanyl, an opiate considered to be 50 times more powerful than heroin. Since then, investigators have sought to determine how the star obtained this highly controlled substance.
According to ABC News, four years later, and while Doctor Schulenberg was cleared of all responsibility in the death of the artist, the council of the Doctors of Minnesota nevertheless decided to punish him up to 4,648 dollars for breaches of professional ethics. Not for providing him with another drug, Oxycodone, but for prescribing it on behalf of another patient: Prince's bodyguard.
At first, Doctor Schulenberg, who had been treating Prince for several months for hip pain, had said that he did not know that Oxycodone was going to be given to the interpreter of Peach , but he had decided in 2018 to settle amicably a civil trial, for the sum of $ 30,000. All criminal charges against the doctor were dropped last November. Contacted by the AP news agency, the doctor's lawyer did not wish to comment on the news.
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