Propofol Use May Date Back to 2005
A source told MSNBC that Jackson’s “weird behavior” on a trip back in 2005 may have been linked to use of the dangerous anesthetic Propofol. This would mean that Jackson’s relationship with the drug goes back further than previously thought, and Dr. Conrad Murray may not have been the first doctor to prescribe it to the King of Pop.
According to the unnamed business associate, Jackson’s behavior on a trip in Dubai was so bizarre that those around him questioned him about his drug usage, and Jackson admitted to using a substance with a description matching Propofol.
Michael Jackson’s propofol abuse could have started as early as 2005, according to sources with longstanding relationships with the singer.
“He went to Dubai in 2005 and when he was there, people around him started to grow concerned. He was acting bizarre, and everyone knew he was using,” said one business associate. “Finally he was confronted and all he’d say was ‘It’s stronger than Demerol, it’s something you can only get at the hospital.’ Now, looking back, it sounds like it could have been propofol.”
“He described it to me as ‘something to sleep that completely puts you out, that you get in hospitals,’ ” said another source who was in talks to start a new tour with Jackson during the Dubai trip, which followed the singer’s acquittal on child molestation charges.
“His behavior was strange enough that it was good reason to not continue talks of a tour, at least until he got help,” the source said. “He was an addict. He admitted so himself on television. But now that we know about the propofol, there’s a lot of us thinking that was why he was so weird in Dubai — maybe it was propofol.”
(From MSNBC)