The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Police investigating the death a year ago of pop star Prince found numerous opioids scattered around his home but appear not to have identified where or who supplied the dose of fentanyl that caused his death, according to court documents unsealed yesterday.
Investigators said on Monday that, before his death, Prince had been "going through withdrawals, which are believed to be the result of the abuse of prescription medication".
Schulenberg's attorney, Amy S. Conners, said in a statement Monday that the doctor did not treat Johnson as a prescription pass-through for Prince and said he has cooperated with investigators.
Alongside these, quantities of other prescription pills were found in the artist's home.
Martinez of the Minnesota medical board said it's "quite infrequent" for a doctor to write out a prescription for someone in another person's name.
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The entertainer didn't have a regular doctor. According to the warrant, those medications were prescribed to Johnson on April 7, 2016, by Schulenberg. The suitcase had a tag on it bearing the name "Peter Bravestrong", which investigators determined is an alias for Prince.
One key figure investigators want to interview is Kirk Johnson, a longtime drummer for Prince and the estate manager at Paisley Park who was among those who discovered the musician's body.
But by the time Andrew Kornfeld arrived at the singer's Paisley Park complex on the morning of April 21, it was too late. The day before Prince died, Paisley Park staffers contacted the California addiction specialist as they were trying to get Prince help. According to the unsealed search warrants, investigators did not find fentanyl in Prince's house, however. He was also one of the few people with untrammeled access to Paisley Park, where "there was a sizable amount of narcotic medications located inside Paisley Park ... in various pill containers throughout the residence", one warrant stated.
The documents suggest Prince was struggling with prescription opioid addiction. The Kornfelds' attorney, William Mauzy, has said Andrew had meant to give the medication to a doctor. The drugs found at the estate included oxycodone and a variety of non-painkiller drugs.
Prince's half-brother, Duane Nelson, said he used to get the drug for Prince to help him come down after shows, attorney Michael B. Padden said. A person with useful information can exercise their right against self-incrimination if brought before a grand jury, and at that point the only way to get them to talk is to offer immunity. "He said he got them from his own medicine cabinet, but he denied he meant to use them", one newly unsealed record states. "He said he did not think about it, he just had them, and now admits it was not a very good idea". An autopsy showed Prince died of an overdose of fentanyl, another drug in the opioid family.
Authorities found a pamphlet for Howard Kornfeld's "Recovery Without Walls" program in the Purple Rain room at Paisley Park.
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