There is a lot of controversy surrounding the death of Michael Jackson and his addiction to pain medication and his unyielding need for sleep aides, which ultimately led to his death. Understanding how Michael Jackson got so deep into drugs that it would lead to his death is a very complicated but started very innocently.
The first publicly known time that Michael Jackson began his drug use can be traced back to the commercial shoot for Pepsi in which a pyrotechnic malfunction that caused MJ’s hair to catch fire, leading to an extended stay in the hospital. The severe burns caused Michael to be in extreme pain and often required medication to help subdue the pain. It was at this moment in his life where it is believed that he began his addiction to prescription medications.
Because he began to grow tolerant of the drugs, Michael had to rely on increasingly stronger medications to fight his immunity to them. Over time, his brain became reliant on the medications to relax and to sleep. Demerol is reported to have become the drug of choice for Michael over the years.
During the 90’s, Michael’s life became more complicated as allegations and charges of child molestation arose. After being acquitted of the charges, Michaels’s reputation was shattered in the eyes of a vast majority of the public, leading to a downfall of his music career.
After his shocking death due to illegal ingestion of the powerful sleep agent, Propofol, stories form his personal assistance and bodyguards began to surface. These stories began to paint a picture of Michael that showed the King of Pop requiring a progression from one drug to the next, more powerful one, to sleep, which eventually led to his use of Propofol.
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