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...office, which keeps a database of prescription drugs, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Neither Bratton nor the two law-enforcement agencies involved in the case would go into further details when contacted by TIME. However, the police investigation is reportedly centered on a coterie of physicians who treated Jackson throughout the years. Gossip website TMZ reported over the weekend that Jackson may have been administered Diprivan, a powerful sedative typically used in hospital or clinic settings for surgical purposes, shortly before he stopped breathing. (See pictures of Jackson's memorial service...
Diprivan, which is administered intravenously and known by its generic name propofol, can lead to respiratory failure. It was allegedly found at Jackson's rented home during a police search after the superstar's death and is rumored to have been used by the him in the past to treat insomnia. (See a post-Michael guide to the Jackson family...
...Diprivan was designed to cause respiratory depression," says Dr. Zeev Kain, professor and chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California, Irvine. "That's the quality of the drug. That's why we use it in the operating room. If any of [the Jackson allegations] is true, a lot of people will be in a lot of trouble. It's reckless. In one word, it's outrageous." Kain adds: "We use [Diprivan] before we perform surgery because we want the patient to be out. It's not a side effect of the drug; that...
...There are a lot of risks of this drug," says Kain. If Diprivan was administered to Jackson, "we have somebody who underwent all the risks of anesthesia just for what? It's just outrageous, incomprehensible, it doesn't make sense. It's performing a medical procedure that's unnecessary in an environment that is most likely not licensed for it to be performed...
...police conclude that the drug was administered to Jackson before his death, it could very well lead to manslaughter charges - or worse - against the physician who performed the procedure. Citing sources in the LAPD and the coroner's office, TMZ reported that the police are focusing on Dr. Conrad Murray, the cardiologist Jackson had hired to help him prepare for his comeback tour. The website said it was told there was evidence Murray may have administered Diprivan to Jackson. It was Murray who found Jackson in cardiac distress and administered CPR before calling 911 for assistance on June...