Anna Nicole Smith's Drug Cocktail: Prescriptions,, longevity drugs (growth hormone)

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Anna Nicole Smith

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17788386/page/2/

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March 26: Seminole, Fla., Police Chief Charlie Tiger says Anna

Nicole Smith died of an accidental overdose.

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" The earlier you come to a hospital, the more you have a chance, but

there's not a guarantee, " he said. " Those are not things with a

mathematic precision, but within a reasonable degree of medical

certainty, I don't think she had really a realistic chance. "

 

Perper said he believed at least three doctors had prescribed Smith

drugs using a number of aliases, but all the medication was meant

for her

 

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Stern lawyer Sanchez said the chloral hydrate was prescribed for

Smith by her friend and psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, who

also traveled with her to Florida. Sanchez said the drug was

prescribed last year after Smith's 20-year-old son Daniel died in

the Bahamas of apparent drug-related causes.

 

`She was having hallucinations'

" She was having nightmares. She was having hallucinations. She was

unable to sleep, " Sanchez said, adding that Eroshevich turned to " an

older, tried-and-true drug " because it was more effective for Smith

than newer sleeping medicines.

 

Perper said Smith also had been on several antidepressant and anti-

anxiety drugs and had recently been

injecting herself with

 

purported

" longevity medications " , vitamin B-12 and " growth hormone " .

 

An inquest into Daniel's death is scheduled to start Tuesday in the

Bahamas, where he died. Smith's death was investigated by Seminole

police because the casino is on tribal land.

 

Cyril Wecht, a forensic pathologist who did a privately ordered

autopsy on Smith's son, is expected to testify at the inquest into

Daniel's death. He said he saw no significant similarities between

the two cases.

 

" The drugs are all different. The circumstances are different, " he

said.

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An array of soda cans, pharmceuticals

 

Smith felt ill shortly after arriving in Fort Lauderdale from the

Bahamas on Feb. 5 on a trip with Stern to buy a new yacht. But that

illness was brought under control by antibiotics and an ice bath.

 

She also suffered intense, pungent sweating that soaked the sheets.

An assistant medical examiner's report described seeing a table in

Smith's hotel room containing cold medicine, sodas cans, SlimFast,

nicotine gum and an open box of Tamiflu tablets.

 

Charlie Tiger Seminole tribal police chief, said investigators

found nothing unusual on laptop computers belonging to Smith and

Stern. Tiger also said nothing came up during an exhaustive review

of tapes from hotel security cameras and from interviews with

numerous witnesses.

 

 

The public airing of the details of Smith's death reflected the way

she lived her life.

 

A high school dropout in Texas, she gained fame as Playboy Playmate

of the Year, a model for Guess jeans and later a star in her own

reality show. She married 89-year-old oilman J. Howard Marshall II,

and after his death took her fight for Marshall's estimated $500

million fortune as far as the Supreme Court. That ongoing battle

could make her infant daughter, Dannielynn, very wealthy. Stern and

two other men have claimed to be the baby's father.

 

The medical examiner's report was accompanied by a news release and

even a PowerPoint presentation. Among the excruciating details were

descriptions of Smith's breast-enhancement scars, her pink hair

extensions and numerous tattoos, including one of a Playboy bunny, a

Bible intertwined with a heart and shooting flames, and the smiling

face of Marilyn Monroe.