| Michael Jackson's Dr. Conrad Murray has been a | | | | feared Jackson was forming an addiction to propofol |
| primary person of interest in Jackson's death | | | | and began trying to wean the pop star off the drug. |
| investigation since day one of the LA coroner ruling | | | | He said on June 23, two days before Jackson's |
| the singer's death a homicide. Los Angeles law | | | | death, he gave him only 25 milligrams of propofol |
| enforcement has been trying to make the case of | | | | mixed with other sedatives, a concoction which |
| manslaughter against Jackson's personal physician, | | | | allowed the singer to fall asleep. |
| who admitted in his affidavit that he administered the | | | | On the morning Jackson died, Murray said he had |
| drug propofol which reportedly led to the singer's | | | | tried to induce sleep without using propofol. He said |
| demise. | | | | he gave Jackson valium at 2 a.m., and then, at 3 a.m. |
| Dr. Murray was hired by AEG Live to not only keep | | | | when Jackson was still awake, Murray said he |
| Jackson alive, but fit for his next 50 engagements. It | | | | administered midazolam. |
| had been widely reported that Jackson suffered | | | | Over the next few hours, Murray said he gave |
| from insomnia, an illness according to the United | | | | Jackson various drugs. Then at 10:40 a.m. when |
| States Department of Health and Human Services | | | | Jackson still wasn't able to sleep, Murray gave him 25 |
| that afflicts approximately 64 million Americans yearly. | | | | milligrams of propofol after Jackson demanded it. |
| Dr. Murray unfortunately is the last in a line of | | | | The persistent difficulty of falling asleep and staying |
| physicians who plied the star with the deadly | | | | asleep is a symptom which may be accompanied by |
| propofol drug. Murray, who is licensed to practice as | | | | a number of medical and psychiatric disorders. While |
| a cardiologist in Texas, Nevada and California, had | | | | propofol is a powerful anesthetic that induces sleep, |
| been treating Jackson for insomnia for about six | | | | it is not a cure for insomnia. The most effective way |
| weeks, he had been administering propofol by | | | | to treat insomnia is with therapy, but to prescribe |
| injecting him with 50 milligrams every night using an | | | | such a potent and addictive drug, at the very least, |
| intravenous line. | | | | should rise to the level of medical malpractice... or |
| According to his sworn statement Murray said he | | | | manslaughter. |