A month after Anna Nicole Smith’s death from a drug overdose, her psychiatrist collected 44 prescription drugs from Smith’s home in the Bahamas. This is according to testimony heard in the drug conspiracy trial of the psychiatrist, a physician and Smith’s boyfriend, an attorney.
Dr. Harold Schueler, Broward County’s chief toxicologist, testified that he met with psychiatrist Dr. Kristine Eroshevich in March 2007. Eroshevich brought the pills and liquids to Schueler’s office. Many of the bottles contained painkillers, opiates and sleeping medications. Methadone, Phenobarbital and Valium were among the drugs as well as antibiotics and Tylenol.
Smith died in February of 2007 at the Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. Drugs were also found in her hotel room. According to the autopsy report, Smith died of an overdose of at least nine medications.
Schueler testified that he did not find chloral hydrate in Smith’s bodily fluids because the sleeping drug has a very short life of about four minutes in the body. Schueler did testify that he found metabolites indicating the drug had been present in Smith’s body in large amounts and had probably been taken for eight days prior to her death. Schueler said no illegal drugs were found by the toxicology tests.
