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She may have taken the dosages she was accustomed to but succumbed because she was already weakened,” Perper said in his report. “Miss Smith has a long history of prescription drug abuse and self-medicated in the past.”

The recommended dose of chloral hydrate is one to two teaspoons before bed. Smith often took two tablespoons, and she sometimes drank directly from the bottle, the report said.

well, we can almost assume that this is straight from KE. Noone else has ever said, to my knowledge, that ANS 'drank directly from the bottle'. Also, one could also assume, that if CH was prominent in ANS's life circa LB-days, that he would have mentioned it as loudly as he did 'methadone'. moo