Friday, July 10, 2009

Michael Jackson: More Drug Use Details

More information about Michael Jackson and drug relations has been coming forth, with the latest reports telling that he would take more than 10 Xanax pills a night, “asking his employees to get the prescription sleep medicine under their names and also personally traveling to doctor’s offices in other states to obtain them,” CNN reported.

The reports have been uncovered from a 2004 Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department document that had private interviews with two of Jackson’s former security guards.

The interviews were performed as officials prepared for the singer’s 2005 child molestation trial.

One of the security guards told a sheriff’s deputy that he had expressed his concern to another staff member about Jackson’s use of a large number of 10 plus pills a night.

CNN also reported that the second staff member replied, “Jackson was doing better because he was down from 30 to 40 Xanax pills a night.”

One guard claimed he and three employees would go and get prescriptions for Jackson through their names.

Another guard reported that he picked up medicine for the singer that was in other people’s names.

The King of Pop was also noted by a security staffer that he was “out of it and sedated.”

The guard who did provide most of the information about his drug use told investigators he wasn’t comfortable getting prescriptions for Jackson and quit when Jackson “fell on his face” in a hotel room and hurt himself.

Still investigating, detectives have been searching the history of Jackson’s prescription drug use and doctors who have treated him over the years.

Police aren’t ruling out homicide, but said they are “going to be very dependent on the toxicology reports.”

Jackson died at the age of 50 after suffering cardiac arrest June 25.

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