The Doctor Who Scored Methadone for Anna Nicole

76. hey tmz confess that you dirty pigs are paying big bucks for all this info
all this backstabbing even after death
rot in hell

RIP
al least she doesnt have to deal with trash written about her all the time
and she is in a beautiful peaceful place

Posted at 6:38PM on Feb 14th 2007 by shut up already

77. Jenn (Re: Post 49)

My wife's mother has tried to kill me 6 times in the last 4 years! So that really means very little in the end. More importantly, is there any Jew in that little baby? They have tests for that you know! My late step-brother was sued by a woman once for paternity. When the DNA test came back he was exonerated completely! The child in question was 12.65% Negro (scientific term) and couldn't have been his (he was 0% Negro as was the mother)!

Posted at 1:10PM on Feb 15th 2007 by Hal R Hosfeld

78. THE BABY WILL STILL HAVE TO BE WEENED OFF OF THE METHDONE!!!!

Posted at 7:22PM on Feb 14th 2007 by wackynwild

79. Anna lived the high life,she chose to do her own thing,yet i wont bash her...
rest in peace,may golden slumber fill your eyes,may the stars in the sky become your blanket of warmth...

Posted at 6:46AM on Feb 16th 2007 by texas good witch

80. Methadone is so gnarly of a drug for pain. I had a failed back surgery and went on to get a permanent pain pump that drips morphine into my spine implanted and it was the best thing I ever did. The Methadone, when I took that orally for pain, was so scary! Sometimes I would just pass out. BOOM! It scared the HELLout of me, I thought I would die from it, and begged to be taken off of it. I hope the doctor who was giving that to her ROTS IN JAIL, FRICKIN LOSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 2:49AM on Feb 15th 2007 by Ex METHADONE FOR PAIN USER

81. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10214548&dopt=Abstract

Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
Methadone treatment during pregnancy offers overwhelming advantages compared with the less acceptable option of medical detoxification or the unacceptably dangerous option of leaving heroin-addicted women dependent on street drugs. General agreement exists that pregnancy offers a unique opportunity to bring women into medical, obstetric, and drug treatment. Methadone maintenance in the setting of comprehensive service provision during pregnancy reduces maternal morbidity and mortality and promotes fetal stability and growth. With an accumulated experience of over 25 years, methadone maintenance has been shown to be an invaluable and often an essential ingredient in bettering the health of women during pregnancy, in improving the outcomes of those pregnancies, and in offering opiate-addicted women a chance to improve both their lives and the lives of their families.

Posted at 6:44PM on Feb 14th 2007 by anne Sarafraz

82. Personally I think that ANS died from some sort of infectiion caused by her recent plastic surgery.However if she died from a lethal mix of med/drugs, I don't feel like HKS is to blame. Anyone who knows an addict (no matter the addiction) also knows that you can't MAKE them get help. An addict has to want help. You can spend all your money on rehab, therapy, ...whatever, it doesnt matter. If they dont want to kick the addiction it WONT work, and they will do whatever they have to do in order to get the drugs (or whatever it is they crave). You cant blame anyone but the addict.

Posted at 6:47PM on Feb 14th 2007 by gracieO

83. PATERNITY TEST NOW!!!!!!

Posted at 6:47PM on Feb 14th 2007 by froglevel

84. she was a has-been any way and the only one who will sufffer is her poor daughter. the whole entire group of them should be left on an island with nothing until each of them are gone. i hope larry is the real father because he seems the sanest of them all

Posted at 6:49PM on Feb 14th 2007 by tracey

85. Great reporting TMZ - Keep it coming!!! Unbelievable how this story unfolds - not surprising that ANS had some drug issues - it seemed odd when I watched the interview with Rita Cosby and she had two guests on her show who claimed to be both confidants and friends of ANS and HKS - their testimonials tried to show them as a very loving, ordinary couple with no untoward behavior of any sort in the Bahamas and yet, look at all the bits and pieces of interesting fluff coming from out of the woodwork - when I watched that interview last night on MSNBC, it seemed very contrived and well rehearsed imo - maybe I'm just paranoid but come on two young people, one age 20 and the other 39 just suddenly dropped dead for no apparent reason doesn't make sense at all. It was also suggested she died of a broken heart, on Nancy Grace, well that is just plain ridiculous. Yes, she was heartbroken over the loss of her son but she definitely didn't die from it.

Now with the new revelation of prescription drugs being sent out to ANS makes a lot of sense!!! Where was honorable HKS when all of this was taking place? ANS is a loose cannon, by no definition but what does that say about HKS and his character? This man is a lawyer by profession, he is supposed to look after all her legal affairs and yet all her legal problems are surfacing all over the place!! Either he is completely incompetent, or complicit in the entire affair!!! Ironically in this entire mess, there are two dead people on his hands along with all the legal mess and that tells me a lot, where there is smoke, there is bound to be a fire!!!

What really is creepy yet unclear to me is that days or hours before she died, she was feverishly ill, why wasn't she taken to the hospital then? Why was she alone in the hotel room?? And worst of all, why did she leave a five mth old baby in the Bahamas while she went shopping for a yacht?? So many, many questions........all of this really reeks of something very fowl in the entire setup!!

Posted at 6:58PM on Feb 14th 2007 by Michelle

86. THE ARTICLES ON THE BENEFITS OF METHADONE DURING PREGNANCY ARE IRRELEVANT! THE CA DOCTOR IS LIABLE AND LIKELY WILL LOSE LICENSE FOR:

1. PRESCRIBING A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE TO AN AKA (ILLEGAL)
2. PRESCRIBING A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE TO A RESIDENT OF THE BAHAMAS (ILLEGAL)
3. PRESCRIBING A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE TO SOMEONE NOT UNDER HIS DIRECT CARE AND *PRESUME* DID NOT SEE HER ON/ABOUT THE DATE OF PRESCRIPTION

ALL WILL BE REVEALED IN DUE TIME.... MAKE NO MISTAKE!

Posted at 6:49PM on Feb 14th 2007 by TT

87. So TMZ how much did you pay the scumbags who broke into Anna's house within 24 hours after she died to get you all this great info?

Posted at 6:52PM on Feb 14th 2007 by SOSICKOFLIES

88. http://advocatesforpregnantwomen.org/issues/crack/national_advocates_for_pregnant_women_condemns_crack_campaign_targeting_methadone_clinics.php

NAPW's open letter to Ms. Harris urges C.R.A.C.K. to withdraw their letter and to advise the individuals and clinics who received it of the misleading nature of its implications about methadone treatment during pregnancy.

NAPW is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of pregnant and parenting women and their children. NAPW seeks to ensure that women do not lose their constitutional and human rights as a result of pregnancy and that addiction and other health and welfare problems that women face during pregnancy are addressed as treatable health issue.


Barbara Harris
Children Requiring A Caring Kommunity's
"Project Prevention"
P.O. Box 74
Stanton, CA 90680
Dear Ms. Harris:

We are writing to express our strong objections to your distribution of highly misleading and completely inaccurate information regarding pregnant women and methadone treatment. In a letter date February 22, 2002, you state, in part:

"We are currently working with several methadone clinics that make our offer known, and available, to the women and men who come through their program. I'm sure one thing most can agree on is that it is important for those using methadone or other drugs to refrain from getting pregnant."

We most certainly do not agree. Your statement, suggesting that it is dangerous for a woman who is receiving clinically prescribed methadone treatment to become pregnant, is simply wrong. Methadone is a highly effective treatment for all opiate dependent patients and, most specifically, for women - both before and after they may become pregnant. In fact, methadone treatment during pregnancy has not been associated with congenital abnormalities or fetal demise. In those cases where neonatal withdrawal symptoms occur (and they frequently do not), these symptoms can be treated readily, with no evidence of any adverse impact on physical or cognitive development. In short, there is simply no medical basis for your suggestion that methadone patients should "refrain from getting pregnant."

For over 30 years, in countries throughout the world, methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) has been shown to substantially reduce illegal opiate use and the crime, illness, suffering, and death with which it is associated. The benefits have been shown to accrue, not only to the individual patient, but to his/her family and the community, as well. The most credible and objective governmental and non-governmental organizations in America and abroad have recognized these positive results with MMT. For example, the US Department of Health and Human Services joins the scientific community in recognizing that MMT greatly benefits the patients as well as the general community. It is specifically recommended for pregnant and breast-feeding patients, which further demonstrates the strong medical consensus supporting methadone treatment, both in general and during pregnancy.

Unfortunately, despite methadone treatment's many benefits, it is available to fewer than 20% of the people who most need it. Women, in particular, face numerous barriers to obtaining this important medical intervention. Your letter and activities, which spread false information and stigmatize current and future mothers who receive this treatment, will make it even more difficult for women who need methadone treatment to receive it.

We therefore urge you to withdraw this letter immediately and to advise each of those individuals and clinics who received it that it was based on misinformation. Furthermore, it is essential that you publicly repudiate the inaccurate message you conveyed on your organization's website and in other public and media context. Not to do so would be irresponsible and a great disservice to those whose interests you claim to have at heart.

Signed,

Signatories

Lynn Singer, Ph.D, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine
2. Stephen Kandall, MD, Retired Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
3. Daniel Neuspiel, MD, MPH, Associate Chairman of Pediatrics, Beth Israel Medical Center

and 127 other M.D's......

Posted at 6:53PM on Feb 14th 2007 by anne Sarafraz

89. Everyone is wondering why all this stuff is surfacing. I am not surprise at all. As it is said "what is in the dark will come to light" . Anna is not the only celebrity to have people cover for her. The Hollywood way of doing drugs is call prescription !!!!! Anna had plenty of people in her corner fluiding her lifestyle. This is the same way she got her residency. A promissory note on a mansion and bingo...she got her residency. Nothing is done the proper way. I hope Howard enjoy the last few days in that mansion. Anna did not sign the deal buddy....

Posted at 10:42AM on Feb 15th 2007 by Pitiful

90. Wow, that's some crazy sh*t! Perscribe her methadone WITH a narcotic at the same time? What happened to "do no harm?" This jerkamer should have his license yanked for sure! Idiot!

Secondly, it's probably best for that baby that someone other than Anna raise it, sounds like she was an unfit mother for sure. Poor thing.

Posted at 8:54PM on Feb 14th 2007 by Tami