She recalled the first phone call she’d taken about the drug, in the late 1990s. The informant had told the cop. The cop called the pharmacist. The pharmacist called Sister Beth. It was another game of telephone, only this message remained tragically on point: “Beth, you wait,” pharmacist Stewart had told her on the phone. “They’re saying it’s nonaddictive, but you mark my words: This is the beginning of a disaster for us.” The disaster was now in full bloom. And Sue Ella and Sister Beth guessed exactly where it was headed. Even if Big Pharma and the pill-mill doctors could be brought to
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