Jackson-AEG Trial Continues

PRESCRIPTION FOR DISASTER: Michael Jackson had a laundry list of prescription drugs in his system when he died in the days before his comeback tour, a toxicologist with the L.A. County coroner's office testified Monday. Dan Anderson, the first witness called in the second week of the lawsuit that Jackson's family filed against AEG, revealed that tests of Jackson's blood, urine and internal organs showed traces of the anesthetic propofol, the anti-anxiety drugs Valium and lorazepam, the short-term anesthetic midazolam and lidocaine, a numbing cream that paramedics sometimes use in resuscitation efforts. The toxicologist also testified that investigators found other drugs at Jackson's home, including the antidepressant trazodone, the prostate drug Flomax and injectable lorazepam as well, a form of the drug "typically found in a hospital setting." Most of the drugs, the toxicologist testified, were prescribed by Dr. Conrad Murray. (5/6p)