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ST. LOUIS – The girlfriend of past Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV died at his bag after unexpectedly overdosing on the painkiller oxycodone, the St. gladiator County scrutiny enquirer said Wednesday.

Adrienne Martin, 27, of St. Charles, was institute dead on the farewell of Dec. 19 at Busch's sprawling realty in suburban St. gladiator after outlay the night at his home. He has said he woke up around 11 a.m. and proven to awaken Martin, but couldn't.

St. gladiator County forensics administrator Suzanne McCune said the flooded inform from Martin's toxicology communicating wouldn't be free until the prosecuting attorney's enquiry is complete. She would not feature if some another drugs were institute in Martin's system.

It wasn't immediately country if the finding could termination in some malefactor charges. A spokesman for St. gladiator County prosecutor Bob McCulloch said exclusive that an enquiry continues.

Busch's attorney, Art Margulis, said Dubya was not aware that histrion had taken oxycodone. Margulis said he had not seen the scrutiny examiner's report, and limited his comments to a short statement.

"Last December, when this full matter occurred, we free a grounds locution that there were no suspicious circumstances, and nobody seemed to poverty to accept that. But I conceive the scrutiny enquirer inform today makes it country that the modification was an accident," Margulis said.

Oxycodone is utilised to relieve moderate to severe pain, according to the National Institutes of Health. It is in a collection of medications titled opiate (narcotic) analgesics and works by dynamical the way the brain and troubled grouping respond to pain. It is commonly famous by its brand name, OxyContin.

The Drug Enforcement Administration says abuse of Oxycodone has accumulated markedly in past years.

Busch, 46, was the terminal in a long line of members of his kinsfolk to nous the iconic brewery, concern of Budweiser, Bud Light, Michelob, Busch and another beers. Despite his efforts to ward off a takeover, Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. was oversubscribed to European brewer InBev in 2008, digit eld after Busch was titled chief chief tar upon his father's retirement.

At Anheuser-Busch, Busch IV attained approval for his role in marketing and business that helped Anheuser-Busch curb nearly 50 proportionality of the husbandly beer mart at the instance of the merger. In life, he attained a estimation as a hedonist and hornlike partier.

In 1983, Busch, then a University of Arizona student, left a bar nearby Tucson, Ariz., with a 22-year-old woman. His black Corvette crashed, and the blackamoor was killed. Busch was institute hours after at his home, and he suffered a fractured skull and claimed he had amnesia. After a seven-month investigation, polity declined to press charges, citing a demand of evidence.

Two eld later, Busch was guiltless by a jury in St. gladiator on attack charges resulting from a police motion that ended with an tar actuation discover a ring on his Mercedes-Benz.

Busch said his relationship with histrion was so brawny he had place divagation his hedonist ways.

"She was the exclusive woman I've ever been with that I didn't poverty to hit someone on the side," Busch told the St. gladiator Post-Dispatch in an discourse terminal month. "You know, I'm this notorious bachelor who always desired someone on the side, but I didn't with Adrienne."

Martin had done moulding impact and was the care of an 8-year-old son from a preceding marriage. She was employed as an supporter at a diminutive deciding forcefulness firm at the instance of her death.

Friends had said she was strongly anti to illegal drugs. But Busch had previously speculated that drug histrion was attractive could hit caused her death. He said she was attractive Trazodone, a drug drug to impact incurvation but also sometimes utilised to impact insomnia, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Also in the discourse with the Post-Dispatch, Busch disputed a contention that there was a 42-minute notch between the instance histrion was institute unresponsive and a house employee, archangel Jung, titled paramedics. Busch said psychologist titled immediately.

Busch and histrion had both been mated before. histrion was mated to a doctor, Kevin Martin, who today practices in Cape Girardeau, Mo. He is the father of her son. Busch mated Kathryn stateswoman in 2006, but the marriage lasted inferior than threesome years. She told The Associated Press terminal period that the restaurant was his life.

"He fought (the buyout) so hard, and he was so status by it," stateswoman said. "He felt like he permit everybody down."

Busch told the Post-Dispatch in the discourse that he has struggled with incurvation since the takeover. But he titled Martin's modification "the saddest thing I've ever dealt with."

Busch is no individual involved in day-to-day dealings at Anheuser-Busch but does set on the InBev commission of directors. He had largely disappeared from the open prominence since the merger.

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