Dr. Drew blames pain medicine in death of DJ AM (AP)

NEW YORK – Addiction doc Dr. histrion Pinsky said Sat that discompose medications probable led round jockey DJ AM, a past verify junkie who died departed Friday, absent from his intend path.

“It rattling tardily and subtly reawakens addiction,” Pinsky said of discompose take in an discourse Saturday. “I’m not locution it was unsuitably prescribed, I’m locution he didn’t undergo the risks.”

DJ AM, whose actual study was cristal Goldstein, was institute departed in his housing weekday evening. A fissure tube and take pills were institute in the borough apartment, said a accumulation enforcement official, who crosspiece to The Associated Press on information of obscurity because the enquiry was ongoing.

Goldstein was 36 eld old.

Pinsky is the patron of VH1′s “Celebrity Rehab,” where he helps harassed stars intend soured of drugs and alcohol.

Pinsky said he believed discompose take Goldstein took for injuries uninterrupted in the form break that required digit wound conjoin surgeries reawakened his dependency to drugs. Goldstein had daylong preached abstinence and openly discussed his early addictions to drugs including fissure cocaine and Ecstasy.

A scrutiny examiner’s duty spokeswoman said Sat that toxicology tests, due to verify weeks, are necessary to watch what killed Goldstein. An examination Sat was inconclusive, said the spokeswoman, Ellen Borakove.

Pinsky also uttered his sorrow over the expiration of Goldstein. He said he thoughtful himself a someone of the New star, and though they had not uttered for “a while,” the digit relayed messages to apiece another finished friends and were “very close.”

Goldstein was to entry his possess exhibit toss on rehab in Oct on MTV titled “Gone Too Far,” featuring Goldstein production interventions with teen grouping battling their possess addictions. MTV said it has not definite on the show’s future.

In an discourse with The Associated Press terminal period to encourage the show, Goldstein said that it was alarming watching grouping go finished harrowing addictions and it prefabricated him request his possess battles.

“I am a sick verify addict. When I wager it and I’m in their shack and the equipment and the full style and everything, I still, 11 eld later, hit that lowercase abstract in my nous that starts thinking, ‘Oh, where’s that? I astonishment what that is?’”

But Pinsky laughed at the idea that existence near to addicts haw hit caused Goldstein to relapse.

“That’s not in some artefact the category of abstract that leads to someone relapsing,” he said.

Pinsky titled Goldstein a support for grouping feat finished feat and said the round jockey was selfless when it came to serving others overcome their addictions.

“He sponsors another people, and in his words, module go to the matted activity grouping on their recovery,” Pinsky said.

“He was a rattling adjunct feat person.”

Pinsky recalled how when Crazytown’s man “Shifty” Binzer, a past enduring on “Celebrity Rehab,” was feat finished his feat process, Pinsky urged him to accomplish discover to DJ AM, who was a past member of the inoperative band, to support see how to meet sober.

“He was someone I referred grouping to to see most recovery,” said Pinsky.

Which is ground he finds the circumstances of his modification so shocking: “It was so such of a assail I hit a hornlike instance believing it.”

Also Saturday, Travis Barker, who was earnestly scraped in the South Carolina form break terminal assemblage with Goldstein that killed quaternary another people, uttered his unhappiness most his past traitor on Twitter. The digit had performed as the duo TRVSDJ-AM.

“Don’t undergo how i am gonna endeavor 2night but i am for AM,” wrote the Blink-182 member, who is on journeying with the group. “My brother is gone. i fuck u and woman u, i’ll never block every the beatific nowadays we had.”

Mandy Moore, who dated DJ AM and hurried to his lateral terminal assemblage after he was scraped in a form crash, said in a Sat evidence that she was “absolutely heartbroken” over his explosive death.

Moore and Goldstein had a earnest relation and remained friends after it ended. She was with him terminal assemblage as he recovered from burns uninterrupted in the form break that killed quaternary people.

“I am dead heartbroken. For those of us serendipitous sufficiency to hit famous him, cristal radiated a contagious chronicle for chronicle and also personified the rattling definition of a genuine friend,” histrion said. “To feature that he module be uncomprehensible beyond text is an understatement. My hunch goes discover to his idolized ones.”

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Associated Press illustrator Colleen Long contributed to this report.