In January 2002, Ms. Bush, now 26, the daughter of Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, was charged with prescription fraud after she posed as a doctor to fill an order for an anti-anxiety medicine.

A year later, after research failures on two medicines and the loss of patent protection on the cancer drug Taxol and an anti-anxiety medicine called BuSpar, Bristol-Myers reconsidered.

Buspirone is an anti-anxiety medicine that affects chemicals in your brain that may become unbalanced and cause anxiety.

This is often a hard task, as the original incident will have been forgotten, and hypnosis or anti-anxiety medicine will have to be used.

Other treatments include behavior therapy, anti-anxiety medicine, psychotherapy cognitive-behavioral therapy, behavioral therapy, exposure therapy, relaxation strategies, and medication.

Dr. Joshua A. Perper, the Broward County medical examiner, said he found traces of many drugs in Ms. Smith's body, including muscle relaxants, pain relievers like methadone and several anti-anxiety medicines.

Additional coping strategies include anti-anxiety medicine and breathing exercises.

Also, report use of any medicine that can make you drowsy, such as: sedatives, tranquilizers, anti-anxiety medicine, anti-seizure drugs, narcotic pain relievers (e.g., codeine), psychiatric medicines, certain drowsiness-causing antihistamines (e.g., diphenhydramine).

In addition, the report said, Mr. Lafferty regularly takes "three sleeping medications, seven anti-depressants, three anti- psychotics and six anti-anxiety medicines, many simultaneously."

It was asserted that not only was Mr. Lafferty a binge-drinking alcoholic, but he also took "three sleeping medications, seven antidepressants, three antipsychotics and six anti-anxiety medicines," one report said.