Princes family sues hospital, pharmacy for death
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but princes siblings filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the trinity medical center in moline illinois where the singer was treated when his plane made an emergency stop on his way back from a concert in atlanta days before he died in april 20161 the family said the hospital should have investigated to see if prince had taken a counterfeit medicine1 according to minnesota prosecutors doctors in moline administered to prince two doses of narcan which reverses opioid overdose but did not test the pills in princes system although the singer was famously insistent on his privacy1 the lawsuit which was filed in illinois friday but revealed later by lawyers also targeted the pharmacy chain walgreens for allegedly dispensing medicine without proper checks1 what happened to prince is happening to families across america family lawyers george loucas and john goetz said in a statement1 the family wishes through its investigation to shed light on this epidemic and how to better the fight to save lives. if princes death helps save lives then all was not lost they said1 walgreens and the hospital declined comment on the lawsuit saying they do not comment on ongoing litigation1 prince is the most visible face of an opioid epidemic that according to the department of health and human services claimed more than 42000 lives last year in the united states1 prosecutors said that prince died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl an ultra-potent drug that is up to 100 times as powerful as heroin in pills marked as the prescription drug vicodin1 prince 57 was outwardly a model of health who fired bandmates over drug use but had been suffering pain after undergoing hip surgery1