Found dead on September 6 at his home in New York, American actor Michael K. Williams died of an “accidental” overdose.
According to the office of the chief forensic pathologists, the one who played Omar in the cult series "The Wire" would have ingested before his death a mixture of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine.
The 54-year-old comedian succumbed to "acute poisoning" caused "by the combined effects of fentanyl (a powerful opioid-based pain reliever), p-fluorofentanyl, heroin and cocaine", write the forensic experts who are refuse to any other comment.
Michael K. Williams was found dead in his apartment in Brooklyn, the New York neighborhood where he grew up.
In 2016, the actor, whose performance in "The Wire" had received critical acclaim, told NPR radio how he was battling his drug addiction.
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The overdose to which he succumbed would not only have killed Michael K. Williams.
According to TMZ, four comedians and rappers would have died the same weekend as him in Los Angeles after having ingested this mixture of substances.
In 2016, the singer Prince died after an overdose of Fentanyl, an opioid analgesic (ie based on opium), which is wreaking havoc across the Atlantic.
"In 2016, there were 45,000 overdoses due to opioids in the United States and the vast majority implicate Fentanyl", confirmed that year Professor Nicolas Authier, president of the French Observatory for analgesic drugs.
"50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine"
In October 2017, American rock legend Tom Petty also succumbed to an accidental overdose.
Suffering from a fractured left hip, the 66-year-old singer was taking Fentanyl to last during the tour of his 40-year career.
"But this painkiller is so powerful that the slightest dosage error can be fatal," recalls Professor Nicolas Authier.
It is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.
Self-medication is a huge risk.
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A month later, rapper Lil Peep was only 21 when he succumbed, last November, to an overdose of Fentanyl associated with Xanax, a commonly used anxiolytic.
