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Anna Nicole's Lethal Drug Cocktail
Monday March 26, 2007


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Authorities have revealed that nine drugs were found in Anna Nicole Smith's blood, causing her to overdose. According to Broward County medical examiner Dr. Joshua Perper, Smith died from a lethal combination of drugs and an infection from an abscess on her rear end, where she had been injecting herself with meds.

The drugs found in Smith's system included:

· Trichloroethanol (a sedative and hypnotic)

· Trichloroacetic acid (treatment of warts, including genital warts)

· Diphenhydramine hydrochloride (an antihistimine and sedative)

· Clonazepam (aka Klonopin; used for treating anxiety)

· Diazepam (muscle relaxant, used for treating anxiety, insomnia)

· Nordiazapam (sedative)

· Temazepam (a sedative and hypnotic)

· Oxazepam (a muscle relaxant and sedative)

· Lorazapam (anti-nausea, sedative, muscle relaxant)

Several days leaving up to her death on February 8, Smith began experiencing chills, vomiting, and her temperature rose to 105 degrees, Dr. Perper said at the press conference Monday. On the morning she passed away, she reported feeling weak, needed help getting to the bathroom, and was found unresponsive and unsconcious hours later.

Clare Waismann, executive director of the Waismann Method and Registered Addiction Specialist, talks to Usmagazine.com about Anna Nicole's death and whether it could have been prevented.

Anna Nicole was prescribed a number drugs from several different doctors. Who's job was it to monitor Anna's prescription drug intake?
"That's the sad part of the story. A large number of patients do that -- take many drugs prescribed by different doctors. There is no tracking for that, no connection between pharmacy computers. It would be very simple to do. In Anna's case, she was in such a state of depression that somebody should have been responsible around her. The doctors wouldn't have known. But someone around her should have been paying attention."

The autopsy report found 9 different prescription drugs in Anna's system. Was it a lethal combination?
"Well, just too much of any one of those things would have done it. Benzodiazepines and opiates are calming drugs, to help you relax."

But they can suppress a person's pulmonary system until they stop breathing."
"You never know when your metabolism is gonna say 'It's too much.' For someone who takes a high level of meds, like Anna, one day when your body is weak you can overdose. Her immune system was shot because of the infection that was in her body. Her body couldn't handle too much. And that's why patients overdose. They take an amount that they're used to, but their body is weak and it kills them."

So there was no way to predict that this was going to happen?
"In her interviews a few days before, you could see every alert sign. Her depression was apparent, and for obvious reasons. When someone doesn't want to feel, they keep taking a little more, and a little more so they won't feel, so they can sleep. Her having access to that many drugs was absurd. She needed to be in a safe environment."

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3:36 PM Anonymous Says:

Looks like she had fun on the way out! Klonopin is the bleep!

5:24 PM John Miller of Miller Pavement marking in Columbus, Ohio Says:

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1:17 AM Anonymous Says:

No the EMT's could not have "hauled her butt off". If she was capable of refusing medical help, they have to leave her alone. If they touched her its battery!!! She could have expressed consent not to go!!! The only way that they could have "hauled her butt off" was if she was passed out or was unresponsive then it would have been implied consent.. So she had to want to go & I'm sorry but I believe she would have asked for an ambulance if she wanted one. Good grief, the conspiracy theories are crazy...how many hollywood people die of od's every year...there all spoiled & can get want they want & unfortunately some end up paying the price of their excess. People need to quit talking so much crap & THINK of the lil girl she left, who one day will read all this crap & whats going to happen if HKS does end up being her father?? Then what kind of screwed up crap will this lil one go thru??

12:01 AM AnonymousSNOOKS Says:

0EVEN IF ANNA DIDNT WANT TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS CALL A RESCUE SQUAD AND WHEN THE EMT'S SAW HOW SICK SHE WAS THEY WOUILD HAVE HAULED HER BUTT OFF TO THE HOSPITAL WHETHER OR NOT SHE WANTED TO GO.IN PRACTICALLY ALL OF THE PIC'S YOUSEE OF ANNA KOWARD IS JUST ABOUT ATTACHED TO HER HIP. DOESNT SEEM LIKE HE WAS LOOKING OUT FOR HER VERY GOOD THIS TIME. HE WAS INVOLVED IN BOTH DANIELS AND ANNA'S DEATH.

12:01 AM AnonymousSNOOKS Says:

0EVEN IF ANNA DIDNT WANT TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS CALL A RESCUE SQUAD AND WHEN THE EMT'S SAW HOW SICK SHE WAS THEY WOUILD HAVE HAULED HER BUTT OFF TO THE HOSPITAL WHETHER OR NOT SHE WANTED TO GO.IN PRACTICALLY ALL OF THE PIC'S YOUSEE OF ANNA KOWARD IS JUST ABOUT ATTACHED TO HER HIP. DOESNT SEEM LIKE HE WAS LOOKING OUT FOR HER VERY GOOD THIS TIME. HE WAS INVOLVED IN BOTH DANIELS AND ANNA'S DEATH.

10:30 PM Jon F Says:

i take unprescribed drugs all the time! F*ck u for insulting anna nicole because SHES DEAD!!! maybe if someone would have said something before she died, this could have been avoided. screw you all. you are hypocrites and will probably die an even worse death than hers because she just fell asleep... u will probably ... die in a plane crash or burn alive in a fire.

Love,
Jon

3:41 PM Anonymous Says:

Also the ones who "say" Anna wanted no media/hospital are the ones who should be suspected. She even wanted a hospital for a migrane...EXCUSE ME. Media for c-section...media for....everything.
The players all have given many versions of the events.....
INQUEST NEEDED!!!!!!!!!!

3:37 PM Anonymous Says:

quote:Anna Nicole was prescribed a number drugs from several different doctors.Unquote
Records from ME office show................
8 of the 9 drugs in Anna were prescribed to "Howard K. Stern" by Dr.KHRISTINE EROSHEVICH.
ALL 11 prescriptions in the room were prescribed by
"Dr.KHRISTINE EROSHEVICH".

Anna was a "QUEEN" comments made in interviews by both
Dr. Cyril Wecht & ME Joshua Perper prove an inquest is needed.

11:04 PM Anonymous Says:

As a Paramedic, I can safely say from a legal standpoint that Anna could refuse medical help. The only way any one could have gotten her to go to the Dr. was to have an EOD & evidently NO ONE!!!, not Larry or her mother, or anyone else cared enough. To blame HKS for everything is ridiculous. Maybe he didn't do enough but neither did anyone else.

7:04 PM Anonymous Says:

JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED. You're all hypocrites. I'm sure all of you have smoked weed, driven drunk, or taken unprescribed drugs- you've just never gotten caught or died from it. I'm not a fan of Anna Nicole and I know she led a sad life but to insult her in her death is just plain sorry.

12:49 AM terd Says:

she died blah blah get over it she did it to herself shes a stupid bleep to take all those different kinds of medication and so was her son.and Howards not the father,But if men r smart everyone would be saying they are! that babys worth a fortune! hhaaha

8:04 PM Anonymous Says:

HKS, with blood soaked hands is a murderer...a double murderer...The only way he could keep Anna from facing reality & facts was to keep her drugged...he was her walking drug store...He is Pure Evil !! He knew right all along that the baby was not his & drugging a pregnant woman is a good way to rid of it...But his plot & game did not work...I'm sure the baby was born an addict...and further and future problems may plague that innocent child ! If he had put her in a detox with out his black duffle bag full of drugs, she would have faced the reality that it was he, HKS, that killed her son....and little did she ever imagine, in her drugged induced state, that 5 months later she would be dead at the hands of this murderer HKS !! What goes around, comes around...HKS is Not Long for this World....He is the most hated man in the World...His time here on earth is very short...Someone will do him in...Just wait and see !! It's long over-due...

7:20 PM Anonymous Says:

The only sad thing was that Anna got involved with a person like Howard Stern. He didn't care enough for her to get her to a hospital. If he had gotten her to a hospital she might still be alive.

2:07 PM Anonymous Says:

WHY IS ANNA NICOLE'S DEATH SO SHOCKING??? THE FIRST TIME I HEARD ABOUT HER DEATH, I IMMEDIATELY ASSUMED IT WAS AN OVERDOSE. IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. ANNA LIVED A SAD LIFE AND RESORTED TO DRUGS. I ONLY FEEL SORRY FOR HER BABY!!

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