Friends Sought Help for Prince’s Addiction, Lawyer Says
MINNEAPOLIS — A doctor who specializes in helping people addicted to pain medication was preparing to attempt to treat Prince
when the music star was found dead in an elevator on the first floor of
his sprawling estate here last month, according to a lawyer
representing the doctor.
The
doctor, Howard Kornfeld, who runs a treatment center in California,
rushed his son on a redeye flight to meet with Prince here to discuss a
treatment plan after the musician’s representatives said that he needed
urgent medical attention, William J. Mauzy, a lawyer for the Kornfeld
family, said during a news conference outside his Minneapolis office on
Wednesday afternoon.
When
the son, Andrew Kornfeld, who works with his father but is not a
doctor, arrived in this Minneapolis suburb the next morning, he was
among those who found Prince lifeless in the elevator and called 911,
Mr. Mauzy said.
The news that Prince’s representatives sought to get him treatment — first reported
by The Minneapolis Star Tribune — comes amid a police investigation
that is examining the role that prescription opioids might have played
in the death. It is also the clearest indication yet of the extent to
which Prince struggled to control the chronic pain in his hips and other
parts of his body caused by years of taxing performances.
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