Prince 'lifesaving mission' turned tragic for doctor's son

Andrew Kornfeld's red-eye flight to bring a prescription drug to Prince has been described by his attorney as a "lifesaving mission" to persuade the superstar to start treatment for addiction.

Kornfeld helped in his father's medical practice by teaching surfing to young drug users in recovery.

Since his connection with Prince became known, the younger Kornfeld has been stalked by celebrity photographers and has avoided talking publicly about the musician's death.

Andrew Kornfeld's social media accounts show him smiling with a surfboard and list him as CEO of a Bay Area marketing company for health professionals.

[...] perhaps the most intriguing detail about Kornfeld is his connection with Fadiman, author of "The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide," which collects stories of people experimenting with LSD, including professionals who took a fraction of a normal dose and reported boosts in their creativity at work.

Fadiman and Kornfeld co-authored a chapter titled "Psychedelic-Induced Experiences" for "The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology," a textbook dealing with spirituality and transcendent human experience.

In a 2011 letter to a medical journal, he praised buprenorphine's potential for pain patients, saying believers in opioid therapy "need not lose faith."