Amanda Peterson Might Have Died of Substance Abuse

Amanda Peterson Might Have Died of Substance Abuse

Amanda Peterson of Can't Buy Me Love, is said to have overdosed while self-medicating in an attempt to deal with pain from a hysterectomy; a Coroners reports says. She had multiple prescriptions in her system at the time her sudden death on July 5.

A week before her death, Peterson told a confidant that she took a friends morphine for an undisclosed pain.

"For unclear reasons, it appears that the decedent was attempting to self-medicate her pain at the time of death," Dr. Micheal Burson, a pathologist and University of Colorado-Denver professor, writes in the autopsy report.

Contrary to her mother's claim that her daughter did not die out of substance abuse, Burson wrote that substances found in Peterson system were within therapeutic level except the pain-killer, gabapentin.