Drug Request for Anna Nicole Smith Called a Pharmaceutical Suicide

Valley Village pharmacy received a fax requesting drugs for Anna Nicole Smithfive days after her eighteen year old son unexpectantly died of a drug overdose. Daniel was visiting his mom, Anna Nicole, after she had just given birth to his new baby sister in the Bahamas in 2007.

The pharmacists was disturbed with the request and declined to fill the order, calling it a "pharmaceutical suicide," according to court documents. A psychiatrist was asking for 300 tablets of methadone, a muscle relaxer, two types of sedatives, an anti-inflammatory drug, and four bottles of a painkillers that is referred to as "hospital heroin."

Less than five months later, Anna Nicole Smith, 39, overdosed on prescription medications in a Florida hotel room on February 8, 2007.

The court documents stated the pharmacist's warning against the amount of drugs requested and state officials are investigating the role her physicians and companion played in her drug use. Two other pharmacists in the documents stated their concerns and the danger in the amount of powerful drugs requested for a woman that had a well-known history of substance abuse. Even if you didn't have a history of substance abuse, the amounts requested were unusually high.

The documents also proved that both of Smith's doctors, psychiatrist Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and internist Sandeep Kapoor crossed over professional boundaries by having sexual contact with Ms. Smith. They took advantage of a woman who was extremely vunerable after losing her beloved son to a drug overdose.

Three photos found on Smith's laptop show the late model and psychiatrist Eroshevich naked and embracing in a bathtub. The photos were dated two months before Smith died. An attorney for Eroshevich declined to comment on the nude photos, but stated the doctor was committed to helping Smith in her desperate time of need.

A video aired on Inside Edition showed Smith and shirtless internist Kapoor in a nightclub setting, with Kapoor kissing and nuzzling on Smith.

Also being charged by the Los Angeles prosecutors are Smith's boyfriend and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, with conspiring to provide her with controlled substances. All three have pleaded not guilty. A preliminary hearing is set for October. The court plans to call Larry Birkhead, the father of Smith's daughter, Dannielynn, to the witness stand.

A Florida medical examiner found nine different medications in her system and labeled her death as the result of "acute combined drug intoxication." Documents stated at the time her death, Smith had prescriptions for forty four medications under at least nine aliases.

A senior investigator with the Medical Board of California, Jon Genens, wrote that state prescription records show Smith was prescribed sedatives and painkillers far beyond the quantities needed by medical standards.

According to Kapoor's attorney, Ellyn Garogaalo, she stated, "There's been a misreading of the medical records. When all the facts are disclosed, they will show that Dr. Kapoor's treatment of Anna Nicole SmithAnna Nicole Smith was in good faith and consistent with good medical practice."

Documents show Eroshevich requested the sleep aid chloral hydrate for Ms. Smith from a pharmacist in California. The pharmacist told Eroshevich "I wouldn't give her chloral hydrate unless you want your picture on the front page of the National Enquirer."

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