Two doctors who treated Prince are being investigated for whether they wrote prescriptions for the megastar or helped him acquire drugs before his overdose death, according to a report.
The FBI, DEA and the Carver County District Attorney’s Office in Minnesota are probing primary care physician Dr. Michael Schulenberg and Dr. Howard Kornfeld, a California addiction expert, TMZ reported.
The autopsy report offered few clues to indicate whether the musician was a chronic pain patient desperately seeking relief, a longtime opioid user whose habit became an addiction, or a combination of both.
Schulenberg treated Prince on April 7 and April 20, and he prescribed “medications and prescriptions” for the musician, a search warrant revealed in May.Kornfeld, who had been called by Prince’s team April 20, sent his son Andrew to the singer’s home with buprenorphine, a drug often used to treat opiate addiction. The son took a redeye flight to Minnesota that night.
After he and two others discovered Prince’s body in an elevator, Andrew Kornfeld called 911. His lawyer said none of the medication he was carrying was used on Prince.
Schulenberg, who is not authorized to prescribe buprenorphine, also was at Prince’s home when his body was discovered — but has said he was only there to inform the singer of some test results. Kornfeld is still practicing in Marin County, Calif., and Schulenberg has been missing from his clinic since Prince’s death, TMZ reported. Within hours, Prince was well enough to continue his flight home, where he died almost a week later.
