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Hip-hop superstar Mac Miller reportedly died from an “accidental overdose” of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol.
The cause of his death in September was made known after the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office released its toxicology findings. According to the report, Miller died from “mixed drug toxicity” — specifically fentanyl, coke … and alcohol too” and that the death was ruled as an “accidental overdose,” according to TMZ.
The report also carries some chillingly descriptive details about the death, including that Miller’s assistant found him “unresponsive on his bed in a ‘praying position’– kneeling forward with his face resting on his knees,” with “blood coming out of one nostril” and that he was already “blue” as his assistant called 911, according to TMZ.
Miller, who was just 26 at the time of his death, is just one in a string of recent high-profile tragedies associated with fentanyl.
Fentanyl is the same high-powered opioid that was implicated in the deaths of Prince and Lil Peep.
Fentanyl, an synthetic opioid, is similar to morphine and heroin but is 50 to 100 times more potent, and is typically reserved for people with severe pain following surgery or for patients needing palliative care, according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse.
In April, Minnesota prosecutors announced that Prince’s April 21, 2016 death was caused by taking a counterfeit version of the painkiller Vicodin that had been laced with fentanyl. Prince had long struggled with an addiction to prescription painkillers, and his representatives were in the process of seeking treatment for him.
It also was revealed in April that the October 2017 death of legendary rocker Tom Petty, 66, was due to an accidental overdose of drugs, including fentanyl and Oxycontin, a trade name for Oxycodone, which he had been prescribed for a broken hip and other medical issues.
Experts say fentanyl has increasingly become a culprit in the nation’s opioid addiction crisis, contributing to thousands of overdose and a rise in fatalities, the Washington Post reported in 2017. In 24 of the nation’s largest cities and the counties that surround them, fentanyl-related overdose deaths increased nearly 600 percent from 2014 to 2016, according to county health departments nationwide.
Lil Peep, 21, died in November 2017 of an overdose of fentanyl and generic Xanax, while he was Tuscon Arizona to give a concert. The Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner ruled the rapper’s death accidental.
More recently, fentanyl was suspected in the near-fatal overdose of singer Demi Lovato in July and the death in late September of Justin Miles, the 18-year-old stepson of Scott Adams, the Pleasanton-based creator of “Dilbert.”
Adams revealed in a Periscope video that he had received a call from his ex-wife that Miles had died of a suspected overdose. Miles was found by coroners with a fentanyl patch on his arm, after trying to “score Xanax,” Adams said.