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Michael Jackson overdosed on Demerol (meperidine), according to many posts on the net, letting in those at TMZ—the attend web site for bottom-feeders of entertainment news. The site as well covers that Jackson got daily shots of the morphine analog, maybe for years, and that a physician who was at Jackson's home yesterday is "nowhere to be found." The physician maybe administered the dosage, which must tend IM or IV.

According to another news sources, Brain Oxman, a Jackson family spokesperson and lawyer, and Liza Minnelli (no stranger to addiction) advise that Jackson's abuse of prescription opiate medications is long. The speed with which Jackson's ruminated cause of death has been sent is evident in the truth that the news has already been corporate into a Wikipedia entry for the drug.

While favored as a treatment for acute pain in the 1980s, Demerol has got well fewer popular among physicians as a short-term analgesic on the last 2 decades, mostly because of its toxicity profile and abuse possible.

An autopsy on Jackson's body is to be done today, with results likely this afternoon, reports MTV.com. Though a few toxicology tests are covered to make weeks, amounts of opiate medications can be found inside a day, whenever not hours.