LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A psychiatrist who treated Anna Nicole Smith for drug dependency says the former Playmate fits the legal definition of an addict.
Dr. Nathalie Maullin continued her testimony Tuesday in Los Angeles as prosecutors sought to show that Smith was addicted to painkillers supplied by defendants in the drug case.
Maullin previously described her contact with Smith when she checked into a hospital in 2006, pregnant and in apparent withdrawal from pain and anti-anxiety medications.
She said Smith had decided to stop all drugs when she became pregnant, resulting in withdrawal.
The testimony is part of a preliminary hearing that will decide whether Smith's former boyfriend Howard K. Stern and two doctors should stand trial for conspiring to provide Smith with controlled substances.
