Anna Nicole Smith: Six Hundred Pills Missing at Death Scene

The Anna Nicole Smith case took an interesting turn on Wednesday.  The Broward County, Florida, medical examiner was forced to release documents today in response to a public records request from the Associated Press.  And the findings were astounding.  According to the wire service report Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, a Los Angeles psychiatrist and friend of the starlet's, authorized all the prescription medications in the Hollywood, Fla., hotel room where Smith was found unresponsive shortly before her death Feb. 8, the medical examiner's office said. Eroshevich had traveled with Smith to Florida.

Anna Nicole Smith: Six Hundred Pills Missing at Death Scene

And get this more than 600 pills - including about 450 muscle relaxants -were missing from prescriptions that were no more than five weeks old.  It was unclear if Smith took all of them.  Dr. Joshua Perper, Broward County's medical examiner, said two other doctors also prescribed Smith drugs, but those medications were not found in her hotel room.

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Associated Content notes that one would need to ask how one doctor could prescribe so much medicine to a woman he knew was depressed to a valid reason, the death of a son. If she had been partying and acting like a show girl then one might say she was acting weird, but she lost a child and it seemed like all around her just wanted her to get over it.

The type of drugs found in Smith's system were disclosed with the release of her autopsy report last week, but the remarkable quantity of drugs she had was unclear until Wednesday's release of additional records.

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Another AP report details that the records show Smith had three prescriptions for muscle relaxants in her hotel room: two for carisoprodol, prescribed Jan. 2 and Jan. 26, and one for methocarbamol, under the brand name Robaxin, prescribed Jan. 2.

Some 415 of the carisoprodol pills were missing from their containers as well as 33 of the Robaxin pills, according to the documents.

Also missing were 79 tablets of the anti-seizure medications Topomax and Klonopin; and at least two dozen diuretics, antibiotics, antivirals and potassium supplements.