Chatelain had severe chronic back pain, and eventually the temptation of the drugs, which she had placed at the nursing station under cover of torn-up rags, was too great. She gave herself an injection of the morphine. She saw that her patient Wilda McManus also seemed like she could use something—in McManus’s case to calm and quiet her. This was how, just before midnight, McManus came to receive a small dose of Ativan. Her daughter Angela wasn’t there to warn the nurse about the drug’s previous paradoxical effect. And even if it worked like magic, no drug could replace the comfort and
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