[ravingnutter]

Well, if you combine my meds and my hubby’s, we probably beat that list. He is on four different types of cholesterol meds, plus his two heart meds (one heart rate, the other BP), anxiety meds, pain meds and hormones. For me it is BP meds, hormones and anti-inflammatories and pain meds for my arthritic hip. Then add the over-the-counter stuff such as aspirin for heart therapy and vitamins, our list is pretty extensive, so personally I don’t find this at all shocking.

[Tainan]

Yes, I'll add my agreement to both of your posts.
I'm as anti-pill/medicine person as you're going to find and still I take 3 different meds for high BP. Plus I know I have some pain meds laying around somewhere that the dentist has given me on several occasions.
I think this is more 'sensationalism journalism' than any actual damming evidence....so far.

I think the money quote in this might be that she "purged the contents of her stomach" prior to the arrival of the EMTs.
She might well have been self-medicating and lost track. Just have to wait and see.