Subsequent armchair diagnosticians (and a few geneticists who claimed to have a lock of Elvis’s hair and performed a DNA analysis of it) have suggested Elvis had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle in which there is thickening of the heart’s walls, weakening and enlargement of the muscle itself, and, ultimately heart failure or sudden cardiac death. Nichopoulos, however, continued to over-prescribe to many other patients and in 1995, the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners finally and permanently suspended his medical license. In 1980, the not-so-good doctor was indicted again for overprescribing to Presley as well as Jerry Lee Lewis, but was acquitted again. Nick was “acting in the best interests of the patient” (an extremely improbable conclusion, it seems to this doctor) and was acquitted. Nick testified he gave into all of Elvis’s prescription requests because he wanted to keep Presley from seeking out these drugs “on the street.” He abused antihistamines, tranquilizers such as Valium, barbiturates, Quaaludes, sleeping pills, hormones - and laxatives, for the constipation.ĭr. Presley was a long-time abuser of opiates, which not only kill pain but also cause savage constipation. Indeed, his medicine chest was filled with amber-colored, white-topped vials of medications, in doses no responsible doctor would have prescribed. But Elvis was not suffering from garden-variety constipation at the time of his death.
Thus, he likely died of a massive heart attack and keeled over onto the floor. Elvis was sitting on the toilet, straining very hard to have a bowel movement - a maneuver that put a great amount of pressure on his heart and aorta. The other two pathologists Muirhead and Florredo eventually revealed they also had found evidence of severe and chronic constipation, diabetes, and glaucoma during their examination.Įlvis actually died a death that is quite common, albeit an embarrassing one. When the toxicology report came back several weeks later, however, Elvis’ blood was found to contain very high levels of the opiates Dilaudid, Percodan, Demerol, and codeine - as well as Quaaludes. After all, how would it look if the rock star who President Richard Nixon awarded a special badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs had died of a drug overdose? Indeed, the other two pathologists later admitted that Francisco was covering up the real cause of death at the request of Elvis’s mortified family who were concerned about the singer’s reputation. This statement was subsequently demonstrated not to be the case. Francisco, who only witnessed the autopsy, acted without the consent or agreement of the other two pathologists in announcing to the press that “preliminary autopsy findings” indicated that Elvis’s death was due to a “cardiac arrhythmia” and that drugs were not involved. Eric Muirhead, Jerry Francisco, and Noel Florredo, conducted a two-hour post-mortem examination. Later that afternoon, a team of pathologists, Drs. His medicine chest was filled with amber-colored, white-topped vials of medications, in doses no responsible doctor would have prescribed.
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