i dont see it being the nubain so much as it was the insane amounts of protein, the diuretics, the gear, the insulin, the GH, the IGF, the 50 vitamin and mineral tablets he probably took a day, the extreme dieting, and the other rec drugs that he took. i have heard from some that he was a cocktail man who liked to mix some white powdery stuff with nubain and hit that. but that was what someone from venice had told me before. i dont know that for a fact.