You seem so knowledgeable about SSRI’s and methadone. If you know about drugs, could I ask - Wasn’t there something else they could have used besides chloral hydrate to ween ANS off of the methadone. Why again do you think they had to go to chloral hydrate? Isn’t that really old and dangerous? And wouldn’t the norazepam and the other sedative things they found in her blood have indicated that she was addicted to lots of stuff, not just the methadone. Maybe the methadone wasn’t really a problem anymore. Perper said she hadn’t had methadone for at least 3 days. Do you think that was accurate?
Thanks for whatever light you can shed on this.
“You seem so knowledgeable about SSRI’s and methadone. If you know about drugs, could I ask - Wasn’t there something else they could have used besides chloral hydrate to ween ANS off of the methadone.”
What make you think that KE KNEW what she was doing? There’s nothing to indicate that it was something that had a good medical explanation. Nothing in Eroshvich’s behavior seems to indicate she was behaving as an ethical, intelligent doctor. The stuff re abandoning ANS when she was sick and beggin her to stay. Signing her checks. It all just looks like sickening exploitation. She used ANS as much as HKS did.
I dont’ think anyone can come up with intelligent answers about the medications. I doubt there are any GOOD explanations that hold water for why so many drugs, at once and what all their addiction possibilities totaled up to. It just reeks of exploitation.
“...If you know about drugs, could I ask - Wasn’t there something else they could have used besides chloral hydrate to ween ANS off of the methadone. Why again do you think they had to go to chloral hydrate? Isn’t that really old and dangerous?...”
Luvly, that is such a good question! What is the protocol for safely detoxing from methadone? If I have time, I’ll research this.
Chloral hydrate may not have been dangerous for Anna per se. What killed her is not the fact that she was taking chloral hydrate, but the fact that she took toxic amounts (according to the toxicologist on Perper’s report). The prescribing physician can claim she prescribed in proper doses. She can skate on this. She and Howard will simply claim that Anna drank too much of it...since that is exactly what did kill her.
Also, I want to know why so many different anti-anxiety drugs? Was it to help the detox process? And why was Methadone discontinued when she came to the States? Lots of good questions that we will never know the answers to unless Virgie brings civil charges against HKS and KE.
This next week will be telling regarding Virgie’s motives and whether she has the desire to seek the answers we are looking for.