Stallard, the Big Stone Gap drug detective, remembered an informant unpacking the life of a Norton patient: “He told us, ‘Dr. Norton wrote prescriptions for Lortab, forty-milligram OxyContins, and eighty-milligram Oxys all in the same visit.’” When Stallard subpoenaed the physician’s records, he saw Norton had prescribed thousands of OxyContin pills in just thirty days.
