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Anna Nicole Smith

Anna Nicole Smith's psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, is under intense scrutiny after it was revealed that she had prescribed for the late model 300 tablets of methadone, two types of sedatives, a muscle relaxer, an anti-inflammatory drug and four bottles of a painkiller dubbed "hospital heroin," according to unsealed court records.

The prescriptions arrived at Valley Village Pharmacy just five days after the model's son had died in the Bahamas.

The combination of drugs greatly alarmed the pharmacist, who phoned Smith's internist and stated that he was not going to fill a prescription that was equivalent to "pharmaceutical suicide," according to court documents.

Not five months later, on February 8, 2007, the Anna Nicole Smith, 39, overdosed on prescription medication in her hotel room in Florida.

The pharmacist's warning is documented in recently unsealed affidavits written by various state officials who are now looking into the role Smith's doctors played in her drug use. The affidavits note similar warnings from at least two other pharmacists and allege that Dr. Eroshevich, and Smith's internist, Sandeep Kapoor, paid no attention to obvious dangers in providing dangerous and addictive prescriptions to a woman with a history of substance abuse.

Smith had prescriptions for no less that 44 different medications under at least nine different names at the time of her death, according to the affidavits accompanying warrants for searches of the physicians' offices. A Florida medical examiner found nine medications in her blood stream and ruled her death the result of "acute combined drug intoxication."

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