Anna Nicole Smith found in hotel room unresponsive

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Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

As a muscle relaxant, in excessively high doses, Valium will repress the breathing reflex, which means that you will stop breathing in your sleep. Valium is also a very, very tiny pill that would be dissolved very quickly. Therefore, I'm not surprised that the examiner could not find visual traces of it.

Some classes of antibiotics have cardiac affects (QTc prolongation, Torsades, etc.), and may interact with other drugs, which would increase the levels in the blood of all drugs, even if an appropriate dosage is taken. This could have led to a heart attack. Because many newer antibiotics are taken once per day, if she took the medication in the morning, it may have been absorbed fully into her system by the time she died. For all we know, she could have taken a double dose of antibiotic because she felt so rotten, or because she wanted to make up for a skipped dose.

Yeah, but you'd have to take a ****load of Valium to OD, so there would most likely be something left in the stomach. IMO.


The more I think about it, I think you're right - strong probability of a drug interaction, whether legal or not. Simple OTC cold remedies can easily increase your heart rate by themselves, let alone in combination with other stuff. Plus, you know damn well that most people don't take it as directed.

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Here is a link showing the contents of ANS' frige. We can see the methadone, but, what are in those vials with the red stripes. Any nurses know - Paula - Curtis?

http://www.tmz.com/2007/02/11/annas-...and-slim-fast/

I'm 99% sure that it's B12, which is given intramuscularly.