“...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.
One thought I had was that perhaps all the different anti-anxiety drugs was to try to prevent a particular dependence or tolerance to just one, in hopes of weaning Anna gradually. But, they’re in the same class of drugs, so that didn’t make sense unless there are some differences in actions between those similar drugs. I don’t recall if there were different dosages of each drug, either. For instance, a higher dosage of Ativan and a lower dosage of Klonopin( or whichever the benzos were. I still don’t know if it makes any sense, and it sure wouldn’t be done in a rehab hospital setting that way.
The chloral hydrate was tried and true for so many years before the newer sleep aids came out. I can see where Ambien and the other newer ones wouldn’t work well for her for long, and it was stated that she did try them.