Because Silver starting drinking at such a young age, she may have, on a day to day basis, taken whatever presented itself to her, whatever was free. There are reports she also used "happy dust". Toward the end of her life, one of her most important relationships was with her doctor. Was her doctor supplying her with drugs? What else might she have been hooked on by 1925? She'd been in the hospital on several occassions, broken bones and even a scalding in January of 1925. What had made her so weak by September of 1925 that another scalding killed her rather quickly?