I know nothing about Prince. He was way after my time, and I wouldn't recognize his music if he had given me a personal concert.
I heard that he need double hip replacement surgery, but he couldn't have it because the JW cult wouldn't let him, because he would need blood transfusions. My mom stored her own blood when she had her hip replacement, so I wondered why he couldn't do that, too. But apparently once the blood is outside the body, even if it is your own you are contaminated and you will not be there in the New Heaven and New Earth.
So he took a much lower road than getting the source and cause of the problem fixed, and instead became addicted to pain meds. But chronic pain is unbelievable, as someone who has suffered from it for over a year. And you need something to keep you from going insane from the pain.
So that is the point! Some one who is truly in pain, needs pain meds. But if the pain goes, then the medications need to go, too!
So I disagree he was enabled. If he truly was suffering from degenerative arthritis in his hips - hip pain can be more intense than almost anything else - primarily because the joint is so big - so more space to radiate pain then he might really have needed pain meds, at least in the right doses!
But if that story about his hips is not true, well then I would agree he probably was enabled, and it is a sad end for anyone. As for the JW's and not allowing people blood transfusions to save their lives, in the OT, someone who had blood on them was unclean for one day! ONE DAY! What a cult, and so very awful for the people who have bought into their lies.