That’s it in a nutshell, sod, including any and all variations/combinations of the 3:) I still tend to place most of the onus on Anna herself and the doctors over the years who kept writing her scripts.
It is possible Stern deferred to the doctors supplying the meds and wasn’t completely up on all the dangers of Anna’s meds, when combined or not, even though he certainly did know Anna had a big addiction problem. I read the inserts on medications I get and do look them up on the ‘Net, usually, but I never used to and I’m pretty smart, all considered. I just have had a hard time believing Stern kept Anna drugged up for his own reasons and I think we’ll eventually hear he did try to regulate her intake and get her to stop at times. If we do hear that, I’ll probably tend to believe it, even if it comes from his own mouth,lol! For years, I thought Anna was doomed to hit her bottom hard one day, and that she did. I don’t think Howard or anyone else could have stopped it, only delay it. The only person who may have been able to make a difference could have been Dr. KE, at the end. But, when it looks like even having little DL couldn’t pull Anna out of it, who else really could have?
As to HKS there are many red flags:
*the nasty comments about VA - totally uncalled for
*refusal to let VA see DL
*refusal to let VA and Daniel speak with ANS
*his lies about paternity and too many other lies to list here
*his fight against determining paternity
*his presence at the scene of two death of persons who should not have died - what a "coincidence"
*ANS given drugs prescribed for him and his actions on the day she died were at best bizarre
*the fight over the funeral - about which he should have had no say at all - and his handling of the funeral revealed a sadistic streak
*his fight to prevent a hearing - just a hearing - into the death of Daniel speaks for itself and what it reveal is truly frightening
*watch the shocking Clown video - what a guy
*there are many other facts about him posted here that fill in the puzzle. His own actions and words have betrayed him.
Not singly but taken all together, these facts paint the picture of a sociopath to many. A number of others on this thread are better informed than I and can make a better case against HKS than I.
Let's not forget Bonnie's statement - "Over our dead body."
So you are going with number two then?