He abused them heavily up until the time of his death, as his autopsy showed 10 different pharmaceutical drugs found in his system. In the later years of his life he was almost unable to function without them, so his doctor Dr. George Nichopoulos would try to either get him unhooked from them, give him placebos, or give him the least deadly ones available to keep him functioning for shows and life in general. While they were the main factor in his death, they definitely played a very big role, contributing to his head trauma and heart problems by making both of them worse. ‘’Together, all this information points to a conclusion that, whatever tolerance the deceased may have acquired to the many drugs found in his system, the strong probability is that these drugs were the major contribution to his demise." Quote from Irving Sunshine, Dr. Forrest Tennant, page 1). Although both his heart and drug usage played major roles in his death, the number one thing that killed him was the head trauma he experienced over many years. He had fallen or been hit so many times that it caused severe damage to his brain and changed him as a