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antianxiety and see sedation. i am concerned the doctors make it too available. a lot. if you have alcohol, and you also take a sedative, you can actually be knocked unconscious quickly, and it suppresses breathing in the brain, so, if -- there are a lot of "ifs," if she was in the bathwater and under the water it could be because she stopped breathing from the medication. the combination of alcohol and sedatives is not good and if it was more than one sedative, i would never prescribe more than one, xanax and valium, all mentioned, some concerns about what we call poly pharmacy, physicians that are enabling celebrities. >>neil: but even after the michael jackson would they not be leery? >>guest: the same pharmacy has been mention the here and it is still open. the drug enforcement age has not been that strong in getting doctors to step doing this. doctors have a hit of enabling celebrities. >>neil: there is a lot we don't know. and the preparation pills we are found are what we find in a modern medicine cabinet but another thing i worry about when people uninten

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we have had a number of reports that inside that room they found the antianxiety medicine xanax and two others but it is not confirmed. doctors say one that was fond can be lethal. >> all may have the same effect, which is they make you more and more unconscious, and they sue resolution your brain's breathing center. so, it is more likely you will stop breathing altogether if you have a big combination of alcohol and the sedatives. >> so we will not get the first toxicology reports until late many or early april. >>shepard: yesterdays during the news conference, a reporter from los angeles asked about this pharmacy, the same pharmacy that some of michael jackson's originated. >>trace: they are not commenting. the question was, are you investigating the drugstore, now, like you did back when michael jackson, after his overdose, and the answer was, there was no answer, but back in 2009 the d.e.a. raided the pharmacy back then to see if there was a connection between the propofol he got and the pharmacy. there were no criminal charges ever brought against the pharmacy and right now there i

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reporter: tmz reports, authorities found prescription pill bottles in her room, including the powerful antianxietyxanax. it was too late for cpr. the voice was gone. >> there's no visible signs of trauma, and foul play is not suspected at this time. >> reporter: whitney's ex-husband bobby brown got word while performing in mississippi and reacted on stage. >> i just want to say, i love you, whitney. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: and sunday, the couple's only daughter, bobbi kristina, was rushed to the hospital for stress but released hours later. >> y'all put your hands together! >> reporter: some say the warning signs of whitney's deterioration were there just 48 hours before her death. thursday night, her final performance. sounding like a shell of her former self. and outside the club, many say she looked like a shell of her former self. mismatched clothes with visible scratches and blood running down her leg. >> in my opinion, she seemed like she was under the influence of something, be it drugs or be it alcohol, i don't know, but she certainly seemed not to be all there. >> reporter: k

. >> sources are tells us they included antianxiety medication and sleeping pills. of thing. look. she could have had an underlying medical condition that together with the injection of prescription drugs or other substances could have led to her death. >> reporter: houston had been seen leaving this bever liles medical office twice before her death. they're trying to piece together her complete medical and prescription history. >> the cause of death is deferred and there will be an ongoing investigation. >> reporter: not a criminal investigation, just the answers sought by houston's family and her fans worldwide how and why at just 48 years of age her life ended and whether her death could have been prevented. for today, mike taibbi, nbc news, los angeles. >> alicia korls is a global correspondent for the "associated press." she's near the new hope baptist church. i think there's a lot of effort now to piece together the last couple of days of whitney houston's life. we know that at one point she interrupted clievg davis as he was having a meeg with sinners brandi

>> pain pills, antianxiety pills. a lot of times it's unrecognized that they're disappearing.ng you can do is keep some sort of count on your pills, lock your medicine cabinet. the second thing is we know that parents who talk to their kids, it has a huge impact. 42% less likely for these kids to abuse those substances. only a quarter of kids in this age range say their parents have ever talked to them. the conversation. keeping tabs on the pills. maybe locking the medicine cabinet. recognizing that 64% of these kids are getting medicines from their own homes. >> what about our behavior? every night having a cocktail with dinner or a couple cocktails? some parents a lot more than that. kids are watching this. they're seeing that. they're learning that behavior. >> no question about it. there is a lot of sort of emulating of behavior, recognizing that certain things are okay. but you know there's also this belief that when do you intervene as a parent? when do you intervene as a friend? >> touchy issue. >> how do you advise somebody? >> there's all these myths out there. one of