# 142

Analgesics (pain killers) which suppress respiration all the way down to cessation (through sleep, coma and to death) found in toxicology report for another pop recording artist.

Below article reports that Tom Petty, like Prince before him, experienced bone injuries with corresponding pain which was treated with prescribed opioids - including oxycodone and fentanyl.

Too much publicity and attention is given to the analgesic virtues of opioids.

Too little publicity and attention is given to the respiratory-override inevitability from taking lethal doses of opioids.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/family-tom-petty-died-accidental-drug-overdose-52476314