The autopsy results haven’t been finalised yet, but it’s looking more and more like Michael Jackson’s drug dependency played a large part in the June 25 cardiac arrest that claimed his life.

According to a number of former employees, Jackson took more than 10 Xanax pills per night, and was often “asking his employees to get the prescription sleep medicine under their names.”

The report of his over-use of Xanax is a true one, obtained by the media from the 2004 Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department documents that were used as part of the King of Pop’s 2005 child molestation trial.

In the documents, one staff member of Jackson’s – a security guard – expressed his concern to another staffer about Jackson’s 10-pills a night Xanax addiction.

The documents state that the second staff member wasn’t worried, as: “Jackson was doing better because he was down from 30 to 40 Xanax pills a night.”

Many of Jackson’s staff members at the time admitted to picking up prescriptions in theirs and other people’s names on instruction by the popstar. One staffer added that Jackson often appeared “out of it and sedated.”

The guard who provided the majority of the information, according to the documents, quit after Jackson “fell on his face” in a hotel room and hurt himself. He said he was never comfortable getting prescriptions for the singer under false names and from different states.

From those same court documents, Michael Laperruque – part of Jackson’s security detail and a former L.A. County Sheriff’s deputy – revealed that the singer’s doctors were trying to him off Demerol, and were “upset with Jackson because he had been self-injecting.”

At this stage, dectectives are thoroughly investigating the Thriller singer’s history of narcotic painkiller addiction and are in the process of speaking with a number of Jackson’s former doctors and medical staff. Police are not ruling out foul play as yet, but are anticipating the toxicology reports to hold the information they’re looking for.

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