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Witness: Anna Nicole Was Prescribed Excessive Medication
A witness has testified that Mexia chicken restaurant worker turned reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith was prescribed excessive medication.
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LOS ANGELES (October 26, 2009)--Anna Nicole Smith's psychiatrist was prescribing excessive medication at a time when other doctors were giving the former Playboy model opiates and other drugs, Dr. Timothy Botello, an expert in psychiatry, testified Monday.
The testimony came at a preliminary hearing for three defendants accused of illegally giving Smith drugs.
Botello documented prescriptions written from 2003 to 2007, when Smith died of an accidental drug overdose at a Florida hotel.
He focused on one month in 2004 when Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, Smith's psychiatrist, and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor were giving Smith medications from various pharmacies.
Eroshevich, Kapoor and Smith's former boyfriend-lawyer Howard K. Stern are charged with conspiring to illegally provide Smith with controlled substances.
All have pleaded not guilty.
