" who gave her or assisted ANS with the chloral hydrate? "
Interesting article on Chloral Hydrate ( link at bottom )-Cliff's Notes- practically nobody prescribes Chloral Hydrate anymore for insomnia , it's too toxic.
It's used very carefully by anesthesiologists in pediatric surgery.
" The psychiatric indication for insomnia is no longer justified ....."
How Dr Krisvorkian could justify prescribing Chloral Hydrate to someone as mentally debilitated and drug addicted as ANS ,is a medical mystery.
ET can give her as much silly cover as they want,but, legal and medical authorities should be thoroughly examining this woman's prescribing history.
It's quickly absorbed from the stomach, but, does cause stomach irritation , which I believe Dr Perper noted.
"Chloral hydrate should be used as a hypnotic only for short-term use, usually 2 to 7 days.
Paging the California Medical Board-
" Chloral hydrate should be used with caution in patients who are mentally depressed,
suicidal or have a history of drug abuse or dependence."
It should never be mixed with alcohol or other barbituates.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=12091779
Thurau K, Goerke R, Vogt S, Perdekamp MG, Weinmann W.
Institut fur Rechtsmedizin, Universitat Freiburg.
A 42-year-old female drug user who was enrolled in a methadone maintenance program was found dead in her apartment. Cause of death was an intoxication with chloral hydrate and L-methadone. Trichloroethanol (TCE), the primary metabolite of chloral hydrate, was quantified by solid phase microextraction (SPME) and GC/MS in heartblood (27 micrograms/ml) and urine (338 micrograms/ml). D- and L-methadone were differentiated by chiral HPLC, which showed that only L-methadone had been taken. The quantitation of L-methadone and its metabolite EDDP was carried out by GC/MS from heartblood (1300 ng/ml and 86 ng/ml, respectively), urine (5239 ng/ml and 4960 ng/ml, respectively) and gastric contents (159 ng/ml and 122 ng/ml, respectively). The concentrations of both--trichloroethanol and methadone--were in toxic ranges.
PMID: 12722558 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12722558&dopt=Abstract