Months Before Her Death, Anna Nicole Smith's Pharmacist Refused To Fill Her Prescriptions

A pharmacist testified yesterday that he refused to fill prescriptions for Anna Nicole Smith in September of 2006 because the combination of painkillers, muscle relaxants and sedatives she was prescribed added up to "pharmaceutical suicide."

Ira Freeman said he received a request from Dr. Sandeep Kapoor (on behalf of Smith's psychiatrist Dr. Khristina Eroshevich) requesting six drugs, which included opiates and methadone. He declined to fill the prescription and told the courtroom, "I called Dr. Kapoor. I said, 'This is crazy. This is pharmaceutical suicide. The dosages are way out of whack.' I said I wouldn't fill it and no pharmacy in California would." Freeman added, "If she got ahold of these medications, it could have fatal consequences."

The Associated Press says Freeman testified that he had filled Smith's prescriptions in the past, and he hadn't questioned previous prescriptions from the late model's doctors.