Addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinksy, host of VH1’s reality smash Celebrity Rehab, claims that pain medications prescribed to Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein during his recovery from a 2008 plane crash could have prompted the mixmaster’s relapse.

DJ AM, whose music could be heard on albums by Madonna, Babyface, Papa Roach and Will Smith, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Friday. He was 36. Goldstein and Blink 182 drummer Barker suffered serious burns and were hospitalized in critical condition after the Learjet they were traveling on crashed last Sept. The celebrity spinner battled crack addiction and obesity in his 20s, but was believed to have been clean for more than a decade.

“It very slowly and subtly reawakens addiction. I’m not saying it was inappropriately prescribed, I’m saying he didn’t know the risks,” Dr. Drew told The Associated Press Saturday.

According to The AP, pain medication was prescribed to the disc jockey following two skin graft surgeries he underwent as part of his recovery from a tragic plane crash last year. New York City police officers called to Goldstein’s seventh floor Lafayette Street apartment Friday evening found a crack pipe and prescription pills near the DJ’s body.

DJ AM was putting the finishing touches to an MTV reality series about drug abuse and intervention when he died.