The Los Angeles County coroner’s report obtained by CNN noted a “history of alcohol and drug use” and an abrasion on his right arm.
There was no evidence of internal injuries and Brown’s death was listed as accidental, according to the report.
His death was the last tragedy to befall the Brown family.
She was married to him from 1992 to 2007 and died shortly before the 2012 Grammy Awards, after accidentally drowning in a bathtub, with heart disease and cocaine as contributing factors, the coroner determined.
Houston was 48 years old.
Three years later, the couple’s only daughter, daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, was found unanswered in the bathtub at her home in Roswell, Georgia. She stayed, first in a hospital and then in the asylum for almost six months, before dying in July 2015.