Former ALICE IN CHAINS Bassist's Friends Say He Didn't Kill Himself

March 10, 2011

Friends of former ALICE IN CHAINS bassist Mike Starr — who was found dead in a Salt Lake City house on Tuesday on Tuesday — have told The Salt Lake Tribune that they believe the death was caused by Starr using both methadone and other prescription drugs.

"I don't think this was a suicide," said Brett Gunn of Salt Lake City, Starr's Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor. "We had a lot of plans."

Gunn said Starr had been using Opana to deal with a recurring pain from an injury. He then began using anti-anxiety medication Alprazolam, a benzodiazepine usually referred to by its trade name, Xanax, after his February run-in with the law. Gunn said he didn’t know Starr had been using the other medications while on methadone until after Starr's death, when Mike's friend, Travis Meeks, the frontman of the rock band DAYS OF THE NEW, told him.

Read the entire report from The Salt Lake Tribune.

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