LOS ANGELES (AP) - Law enforcement officials say a powerful sedative, normally confined to hospital operating rooms, has been found in the rented home where Michael Jackson died in Los Angeles.
The drug is called Diprivan. It's an anesthetic widely used to put patients to sleep and it's milky color earned it the nickname "milk of amnesia." Diprivan is given intravenously. It's very unusual to find in it somebody's home.
Jackson is known to have been plagued with insomnia. Cherilyn Lee, a private nurse who worked with Jackson, says she repeatedly rejected his pleas for Diprivan, which she says he wanted to help him cope with the stress of preparing for his comeback concerts. Lee says she did everything she could to warn him against it.
Doctors from the Mayo Clinic issued a warning last year that Diprivan can lead to "an irreversible chain of events," ending in death.
