I have some knowledge of benzos and there is NO WAY that any ONE DOCTOR would prescribe more than one to one patient!! That is absolutely INSANE!..and a sure ticket to a medical malpractice suit. It’s one thing if a patient ‘doctor shops’ and gets multiple drugs, but I CANNOT see any reason why Dr. Eroshevich would prescribe THREE or more benzos for ONE patient, at THE SAME TIME!! Through my experience with that type of drug, most, if not all doctors, would be VERY LEERY of prescribing even 2 of them, much less 3 of them!! And the only reason I know of that a doctor would prescribe 2 of them, is if the patient insisted that one of the benzos was not working. In that case, the doctor would have to take ‘the word’ of the patient and feel confident that the patient would not abuse the drugs. In ANS’s case, Dr. E was not only prescribing ALL of these drugs, she also stated she was ADMINISTERING the drugs as well!!!
Yup, that's one of the silliest theories I've heard. All I can think of is that putting forth this theory is due to total ignorance of how anxiolytics work and their effects.
To put forth the idea that one anxiolytic was used to mitigate the withdrawal from another just boggles the mind. It is so wrong on so many levels.
But you raise a really good question: Why were there several anxiolytics in her system rather than just one? This makes no sense. So, what was the logic behind it? Perper says they were all at "therapeutic" levels. But he doesn't address the idea that there was more than one!
Are you saying that she was using several anxiolytics by telling the killer Dr E that certain ones weren't working and that she was using them nevertheless, in conjunction with each other? If so, my question would be, wasn't Eroshevich monitoring what Anna took? Dispensing the pills (from nanny reports)? And even if the nannies are not reliable, she was there day in and day out and ought to have been monitoring.
I agree. That’s why the only strange “explanation” I could come up with made no sense whatsoever and discarded it. Just too outlandish. Sure would like to know what HER explanation is, though;)