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Michael Jackson's death highlights celebrity drug abuse problem



29 June 2009 @ 4:05 pm IST

Los Angeles - The sudden and tragic death of pop icon Michael Jackson has highlighted the nexus between stressed out celebrities and shady doctors who encourage their dependency on prescription drugs.


U.S. pop star Michael Jackson gestures during a news conference at the O2 Arena in London March 5, 2009 file photograph
U.S. pop star Michael Jackson gestures during a news conference at the O2 Arena in London March 5, 2009 file photograph. The sudden and tragic death of pop icon Michael Jackson has highlighted the nexus between stressed out celebrities and shady doctors who encourage their dependency on prescription drugs. (Reuters Photo)
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After Jackson succumbed to cardiac arrest on Thursday, his family and friends began to suspect that an overdose of strong painkillers and other medications was too much for the singer's frail body and had contributed to the cardiac arrest.

Even as Jackson family patriarch Joe Jackson said the family did not "like what's going on," sources close to the Jackson family, which had hired a private firm to conduct a second autopsy that was completed on Saturday, said the singer's family was "distrustful" of his former business associates, including the doctors, who administered his medicines, and is "determined to find out more."

According to Jackson's former producer and friend Tarak Ben Ammar, the singer was surrounded by "criminals...the doctors who treated him throughout his career, who destroyed his face, who gave him medicine to ease his pain."

"He (Jackson) was a hypochondriac and one never really knew if he was sick because he had become surrounded by charlatan doctors who were billing him thousands and thousands of dollars worth of drugs, vitamins...," he said.

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