Demerol? i seriuously hope that's not true. I can't believe a conceited physician (after all, MJ's physician, I mean he has the money to pay for the best) would ever use demerol as a pain killer. It's a ridiculous drug that doesn't really kill any pain, just makes the patient euphoric while feeling the pain and is highly addictive. I only use it in hospital in very low doses to stop intense shivering from infections in very selected patients because it does magically work, but for killing intense pain, morphine is a much more "safer" drug. It makes me wonder though, strong pain killing medications are mainly used for the treatment of cancer. Did he actually have a cancer and was needing higher doses of pain killers? I'm pretty sure Michael has always shrouded his health into a big mystery. I think I've read somewhere that when he was first accused of child harassment, he went into a sort of breakdown and got addicted to morphine (or was it demerol exactly?), and needed to go to a rehab to get free from it. I've been just speculating here, but it wouldn't surprise me if he himself got an overdose from it.
It's really sad to think about that. I vwish he weren't dead by now =/