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Anna Nicole died of a drug overdose

Anna Nicole died of a drug overdose

DANIA BEACH – Anna Nicole Smith accidentally overdosed on at least nine prescription drugs – including a powerful sleep syrup she was known to drink right out of the bottle – after a miserable last few days in which she endured stomach flu, a high fever, pungent sweating and an infection on her buttocks from repeated injections.

In a detailed autopsy report released on Monday, a medical examiner noted the former Playboy playmate refused to go to a hospital three days before her February 8 death. She chose to endure her illness in a hotel suite littered with pill bottles, soda cans, SlimFast, nicotine gum and an open box of Tamiflu tablets.Broward County Medical Examiner Dr Joshua Perper found that in the days before her death, the 39-year-old Smith had been taking large amounts of the seldom-prescribed sedative chloral hydrate, which also contributed to the 1962 overdose death of Smith’s idol, Marilyn Monroe.Police found no apparent sign of foul play, and the medical examiner ruled Smith’s death probably was not a suicide because people who take their own lives typically use much more lethal drugs than chloral hydrate.Rather, he said, Smith might have been simply unaware that the sedative could be fatal in combination with the multiple other prescriptions she was taking in normal doses for anxiety, depression and insomnia.Contributing factors included her weakened condition from a stomach flu and a 40-degree Celsius fever brought on by a pus-filled infection on her buttocks from repeated injection of other drugs.The recommended dose of chloral hydrate is one to two teaspoons before bed.Smith often took two tablespoons, and she sometimes drank directly from the bottle, the report said.Nampa-APShe chose to endure her illness in a hotel suite littered with pill bottles, soda cans, SlimFast, nicotine gum and an open box of Tamiflu tablets.Broward County Medical Examiner Dr Joshua Perper found that in the days before her death, the 39-year-old Smith had been taking large amounts of the seldom-prescribed sedative chloral hydrate, which also contributed to the 1962 overdose death of Smith’s idol, Marilyn Monroe.Police found no apparent sign of foul play, and the medical examiner ruled Smith’s death probably was not a suicide because people who take their own lives typically use much more lethal drugs than chloral hydrate.Rather, he said, Smith might have been simply unaware that the sedative could be fatal in combination with the multiple other prescriptions she was taking in normal doses for anxiety, depression and insomnia.Contributing factors included her weakened condition from a stomach flu and a 40-degree Celsius fever brought on by a pus-filled infection on her buttocks from repeated injection of other drugs.The recommended dose of chloral hydrate is one to two teaspoons before bed.Smith often took two tablespoons, and she sometimes drank directly from the bottle, the report said.Nampa-AP

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