Recent reports have announced that Michael Jackson’s body was covered in needle marks upon his death.

After being thoroughly examined on June 25, Jackson’s body was overwhelmed in multiple track marks and several collapsed veins, reports CNN and ABC. These could be indications of the use of the powerful sedative, Diprivan.

Diprivan is a drug typically used to induce unconsciousness in hospital patients before they undergo major surgery.

Wednesday, on Larry King Live, Jackson’s dermatologist (and biological father to his two eldest children) revealed that the singer had used the sedative, administered with an IV.

“I knew at one point that he was using Diprivan when he was on tour in Germany. And so he was using it, with an anesthesiologist, to go to sleep at night,”Arnold Klein said. “And I told him he was absolutely insane. I said you have to understand that this drug, you can’t repeatedly take. Because what happens with narcotics, no matter what you do, you build a tolerance to them.”

Clearly, MJ had not built a very high tolerance for the drug…

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