Claim: Anna Nicole Smith Had Rectal Suppositories for Pain in Room

The cause of Anna Nicole Smith’s death have been has been speculated on ever since the former Playmate died in Hollywood Florida last Thursday.  Now Star Magazine will report this week on alleged new findings in Anna Nicole’s hotel suite.  Star reports that it has exclusively learned that a number of wrappers from used hydromorphone (the generic name for Dilaudid) rectal suppositories were found in Anna Nicole Smith's hotel suite. 

Claim: Anna Nicole Smith Had Rectal Suppositories for Pain in Room

"Hydromorphone belongs to the opioid group of drugs," explains Dr. Ashok Kuma Jain, an L.A.-based toxicologist and emergency physician.  "If you take a large dose of opioids, you can have respiratory arrest."  

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Previous reports of other pill bottles found in her room only add to the speculation of overdose.  Going into her room was like "walking into a pharmacist's shop," a source tells the weekly entertainment magazine in the blockbuster claim. "There were bottles and bottles of pills!" 

The Broward county medical examiner, Dr. Joshua Perper said the autopsy found no immediate evidence, either in Smith's stomach or her bloodstream, that she had taken large amounts of prescription medication. Still, officials "do not exclude any kind of contribution of medication to the death," he added.

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Because this drug is a suppository it would not be discovered until the toxicology reports on the body tissues are in which will take three to five weeks, the report details. 

According to experts cited in the article, mixing alcohol with this particular drug could have been the fatal mistake.  Just before midnight on February 6th, a bouncer watched as she was carried out of the Hard Rock Live hall after a boxing match.  "She was so smashed that two guys had to hold her up," the bouncer tells Star.  Just hours prior to her death, witnesses watched her drink red-colored double vodkas at the Hard Rock’s 24 hour bar.

The magazine also reports that a once-a-day version of hydromorphone called Palladone  was taken off the market two years ago after the FDA determined that mixing the drug with even one alcoholic drink could be fatal.