So they released Anna Nicole Smith's Autopsy Results This Morning...
 

Accidental drug overdose....who would've known :rolleyes: Chloral Hydrate was the main component so said the medical examiner. Sooo sad. :( But I STILL do not trust that Howard K. Stern guy!!! :mad: :thumbdown

I did not see that this morning, thanks for the update Brooke.

How about the dna test, have they figured out who the dad is yet?

Does anyone know what Chloral Hydrate is for?

This is so tragic!! You know, after she passed, one of her friends said that she had once asked Anna Nicole if she could go back and do everything again, would she? She responded, "No way! I would still be living in my small town, working in a restaurant and raising my son!". :( How sad that what she THOUGHT that she wanted, she would have taken it all back for a normal life.

Tammy

I agree about the Stern guy. I don't think he is any good at all. I think
he got her the drugs also and kept her attached to them. He certainly
did not seem to help her in anyway.

Hope the DNA testing shows the younger guy as the father.
He seems to really care about the baby.

Chloral Hydrate



First synthesized in 1832, chloral hydrate was the first depressant developed for the specific purpose of inducing sleep. Currently marketed as syrups or soft gelatin capsules, chloral hydrate takes effect in a relatively short time (about 30 minutes) and will induce sleep in an hour. In Victorian England, a solution of chloral and alcohol constituted the infamous "knockout drops" or "Mickey Finn."


Today depressants such as chloral hydrate are packaged with labels warning against the danger of mixing these kinds of sedatives with alcohol or other depressants. We now know that a mixture of morphine and alcohol, for example, is likely to bring about an episode of psychosis in the user, and morphine mixed with valium is such a deadly combination that it is sometimes used to euthanize critically ill patients.


In the nineteenth century, however, chloral hydrate was often used by alcoholics whose sleep patterns had become disturbed by excessive drinking. The danger of such a potent mixture and the highly addictive properties of chloral resulted in "two cravings for a single craving," as detailed in 1880 in the Quarterly Journal of Inebriety. At the end of the century, the medical community was finally becoming aware of the problems associated with the increasing popularity of hypnotic drugs such as chloral hydrate.


Chloral hydrate, like several other nineteenth-century depressants, found eager users among the literary and artistic community of Victorian England. Poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (in the picture) became a virtual recluse after his wife Elizabeth Siddal died of a laudanum overdose, and his grief and guilt led to a debilitating addiction to chloral hydrate, which lasted until his death in 1882. Writer W.E. Henley's 1875 poem "Interior" from his series "In Hospital," paints a grim picture of the use of chloral as a sedative agent frequently administered to dying patients by health-care workers.


Despite the abuse and mis-administration of the sedative, chloral hydrate did fulfill a need for a drug that would ease sleeplessness due to pain or insomnia and is considered a positive medical discovery. At therapeutic doses (and without the introduction of alcohol and other depressants), chloral produces few negative side effects and is competent in promoting sleep. Although chloral hydrate is still encountered today, its use has declined with the introduction of other barbiturates.





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Sure thing girl ;) :thumbup: I was sitting here this morning watching the news and of course that is just about all thats on right now. They HAVE taken the baby's DNA...and Larry Birkhead's as well...but as far as I know they have not taken Howard Stern's?? He is trying to have the whole thing appealed...now why do you think he would be doing that? :rolleyes: Probably because he knows he's not the father! :mad: He makes me cringe! I can't stand that guy!

Chloral Hydrate is a sleeping aid...it has been circulating for a while that she was using this - and sure enough, the rumors were right. It IS very tragic, I just felt so sorry for the woman. I think she had a really messed up childhood which is why she had a really messed up life.

I agree with you 100% about everything girl. Don't trust Howard Stern, never have, never will. I think he's after the money seeing as he admitted in court that he is LIVING OFF HIS PARENTS :eek: :mad: What a loser. It's scary to think that poor little Dannylynne is in HIS "care!" :eek:

I too hope the DNA tests prove that he is not the father - I just know he's not. I think that Larry Birkhead is the father and have thought that from the very beginning. I too think that he truly cares about that little baby and it's sad that he can't even see the poor girl. This whole thing is just so terrible :(

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That Stern dude just want's the dough.

This was actually leaked on friday, I heard about it on the morning show I listen to on my way to school. They also said that she had an injection in her and the needle wasn't sterilized, therefore an infection came. They said if she didn't pass from the chloral hydrate, it would've been from the infection. She was running a fever well above 100 (can't remember what it was exactly) and not her nurse or Stern would take her to the hospital.

I feel so bad for this baby! But to be honest i don't know if i would have felt any better for her if anna was alive and had her either? she was a messes up lady that had a lot of drug and emothional problems i just hope the courts decide who th father is and take that money and put it in a trust that no one can touch but the baby when she is 25 that will stop all this money hungry bull crap!

The temp was 105 if i'm not mistaken. i heard the same thing she had a blood infection

That is so sad! The whole thing is so tragic! I remember when I heard that her son had died right after the birth of Dannylynne and thinking how shocking that was....and then when I heard she died, I couldn't believe it :(

I agree about the Stern guy, seems like he is up to no good :thumbdown
I feel the most sorry for poor little Dannylynne...what a way to start out your life :(

I don\'t even know why there is an issue with the money the baby is her soul Heir and she is to young to to have it why don\'t they stop this with a trust fund i don\'t get it?