Pop star Michael Jackson's family is planning to trip to Bahrain to stage a drug intervention, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday.

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"The family is in a state of emergency. They consider it a life-or-death situation," a source close to the family told the newspaper.

The source said a phone call from the Jackson children's nanny to Randy Jackson raised concerns the musician is bingeing on drugs.

"Grace basically said she can't handle him alone," the family source said. "The family is in a tailspin."

Jackson, 47, took his three children to Bahrain shortly after his acquittal on child-molestation charges last June and has since announced he has no plans to ever return to live in the United States.

A rep for the singer denied Jackson had a drug problem and called the source's story a "total lie."