coroner 's office discuss Jackson 's death . '' In 2005 , after he was cleared on charges of child molestation , Jackson spent a week at a center run by Dr. Deepak Chopra , a physician who focuses on spirituality and the mind-body connection . During that week , Jackson asked Chopra for a prescription for a narcotic , the doctor told CNN . `` I said , ` What the heck do you want a narcotic prescription for ? ' And it suddenly dawned on me that he was probably taking these and that he had probably a number of doctors who were giving him these prescriptions , so I confronted him with that . At first , he denied it . Then , he said he was in a lot of pain . '' Chopra said he responded to Jackson that there were plenty of other ways for him to handle his pain , but that the arguments were not persuasive . Watch CNN 's Sanjay Gupta discuss Jackson 's death '' `` For a while , I lost him , '' he said . `` I have had that happen with me with other celebrities in
LOS ANGELES , California -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Questions swirled Friday about the possible role prescription medications may have played in the death Thursday of pop idol Michael Jackson , people close to him said . The cause of pop star Michael Jackson 's death has not been determined after Friday 's autopsy . His autopsy was completed , but further tests must be carried out before the cause of death can be determined , a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner said . Craig Harvey said the tests would take four to six weeks , after which `` we anticipate being able to close the case and issuing a final cause of death . '' Among the tests to be carried out , he said , are neuropathology -LRB- brain -RRB- and pulmonary -LRB- lung -RRB- tests . Harvey added , `` We know that he was taking some prescription medications , '' but said he was not able to divulge what . The possibility that Jackson may have been taking medication that could have contributed to his death at the age of 50 weighed heavily Friday on a number of people close to the star . Watch