Addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky believes pain medications likely caused the death of DJ AM.

The former drug addict, who died at the age of 36 Friday, most likely relapsed as pain killers have a tendency to jump-start addictions again.

“It very slowly and subtly reawakens addiction,” Pinsky told the Associated Press over the weekend. “I’m not saying it was inappropriately prescribed, I’m saying he didn’t know the risks.”

Reports indicate that a crack pipe and prescription pills were found in DJ AM’s Manhattan apartment, according to information law enforcement officials told the Associated Press.

The talented DJ had been believed to be taking anxiety and pain medication for injuries he suffered in a 2008 plane crash that required two skin graft surgeries.

A spokesperson for the New York City medical examiner’s office has said an initial autopsy proved “inconclusive” and that more tests, including a toxicology report, are needed to determine what killed DJ AM.

This is still so sad. What an awful year for AM and his close family and friends.

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