Is anyone shocked by this?
One of Anna Nicole Smith‘s doctors, Sandeep Kapoor, prescribed high dosages of Dilaudid, methadone and other sedatives to the late model. Dilaudid is described as “hospital heroin” and is an extremely dangerous drug, having the ability to stop people from breathing.
Kapoor was treating Smith for pain when her disease was mostly mental. He made visits to her home while she was on bed rest for a rib injury and continued to provide Anna with inappropriate amounts of medication for her particular ailment.
Although Kapoor wrote that he was “tapering off” the dosage of Dilaudid for Anna, records show that the dosages only increased. He only discontinued distribution of the drug to Anna at the end of that year, likely because of her infamous intoxicated appearance at the American Music Awards.
He also did not supply Anna with sedatives while she was pregnant, but after she was released Dr. Kapoor began writing prescriptions for her once again. Dr. James Gagne testified at Kapoor’s trial saying:
“They’re excessive. They’re without medical basis, and they fly in the face of treatments. One presumes it was in response to requests from the patient for medication.”
Sad, sad.
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