Hundreds of Pills Missing from Anna Nicole Smith
Del Williams
April 04, 2007
According to a report released today, over 600 pills, including 450 muscle relaxants were missing from the hotel room where Anna Nicole Smith was found in February. All the missing pills were prescriptions written by Dr. Khristine Eroshevich. She is a psychiatrist and friend of the now late Anna Nicole Smith.
What makes the amount missing extraordinary is the fact that none of the prescriptions were over 5 weeks old. One would need to ask how one doctor could prescribe so much medicine to a woman she knew was depressed to a valid reason, the death of a son. If she had been partying and acting like a show girl then one might say she was acting weird, but she lost a child and it seemed like all around her just wanted her to get over it.
The California medical board has stated that an investigation of doctors is not public record. Would it be safe to say that she medicated Anna Nicole beyond the ability for her to make safe decisions? Someone gave her the dirty needle that led to the infection. It seems that Anna Nicole Smith died from not only a drug overdose, but too many of the wrong people claiming to be her friend. Friends don’t prescribe 11 different drugs in a 5 week period for a healthy person. Friends don’t give her drugs she doesn’t need.
The sleeping aid chloral hydrate, the medication blamed with tipping the balance in the toxic mix of drugs and causing her death, was prescribed Jan. 2. About two-thirds of the bottle was gone, according to the medical examiner's records. The records also show 62 tablets of the anti-anxiety drug Valium were missing from a prescription less than two weeks old at the time of Smith's death.
Most of the drugs were prescribed in the name of Howard K. Stern, her lawyer-turned-companion, and none were prescribed in Smith's own name, according to documents. Perper has said all the drugs were meant for Smith.
Information released by Perper's office shows eight of the prescriptions were issued under Stern's name; one under Eroshevich's name; and two were under the name of Alex Katz. It was unclear if Katz was an alias or the name of someone connected to Smith.
The records show Smith had three prescriptions for muscle relaxants in her hotel room: two for carisoprodol, prescribed Jan. 2 and Jan. 26, and one for methocarbamol, under the brand name Robaxin, prescribed Jan. 2. Some 415 of the carisoprodol pills were missing from their containers as well as 33 of the Robaxin pills, according to the documents.
Also missing were 79 tablets of the anti-seizure medications Topomax and Klonopin; and at least two dozen diuretics, antibiotics, antivirals and potassium supplements.
The newly disclosed documents did not mention the strong painkiller methadone or the anti-anxiety pill Ativan, both of which were found in Smith's system. Also missing from the report was disclosure on who prescribed human growth hormone, the muscle-building, weight-reducing agent Smith was said to have been taking around the time of her death.
The problem is that no one can say for sure who took the pills. Did Anna Nicole Smith take the hundreds of pills that are said to be missing or did someone try to get rid of them to cover up what had been going on.
Anna Nicole Smith died on February 6, 2007 due to an accidental drug overdose, with the flu and infection being major contributors.
What makes the amount missing extraordinary is the fact that none of the prescriptions were over 5 weeks old. One would need to ask how one doctor could prescribe so much medicine to a woman she knew was depressed to a valid reason, the death of a son. If she had been partying and acting like a show girl then one might say she was acting weird, but she lost a child and it seemed like all around her just wanted her to get over it.
The California medical board has stated that an investigation of doctors is not public record. Would it be safe to say that she medicated Anna Nicole beyond the ability for her to make safe decisions? Someone gave her the dirty needle that led to the infection. It seems that Anna Nicole Smith died from not only a drug overdose, but too many of the wrong people claiming to be her friend. Friends don’t prescribe 11 different drugs in a 5 week period for a healthy person. Friends don’t give her drugs she doesn’t need.
The sleeping aid chloral hydrate, the medication blamed with tipping the balance in the toxic mix of drugs and causing her death, was prescribed Jan. 2. About two-thirds of the bottle was gone, according to the medical examiner's records. The records also show 62 tablets of the anti-anxiety drug Valium were missing from a prescription less than two weeks old at the time of Smith's death.
Most of the drugs were prescribed in the name of Howard K. Stern, her lawyer-turned-companion, and none were prescribed in Smith's own name, according to documents. Perper has said all the drugs were meant for Smith.
Information released by Perper's office shows eight of the prescriptions were issued under Stern's name; one under Eroshevich's name; and two were under the name of Alex Katz. It was unclear if Katz was an alias or the name of someone connected to Smith.
The records show Smith had three prescriptions for muscle relaxants in her hotel room: two for carisoprodol, prescribed Jan. 2 and Jan. 26, and one for methocarbamol, under the brand name Robaxin, prescribed Jan. 2. Some 415 of the carisoprodol pills were missing from their containers as well as 33 of the Robaxin pills, according to the documents.
Also missing were 79 tablets of the anti-seizure medications Topomax and Klonopin; and at least two dozen diuretics, antibiotics, antivirals and potassium supplements.
The newly disclosed documents did not mention the strong painkiller methadone or the anti-anxiety pill Ativan, both of which were found in Smith's system. Also missing from the report was disclosure on who prescribed human growth hormone, the muscle-building, weight-reducing agent Smith was said to have been taking around the time of her death.
The problem is that no one can say for sure who took the pills. Did Anna Nicole Smith take the hundreds of pills that are said to be missing or did someone try to get rid of them to cover up what had been going on.
Anna Nicole Smith died on February 6, 2007 due to an accidental drug overdose, with the flu and infection being major contributors.