Chapter 6 - WHERE DID THE PILLS COME FROM?The bottle was not prescribed to Serena.
It was prescribed to:
Helen Ward.
An eighty-four-year-old woman living in one of Mercer Senior Living’s facilities.
My stomach dropped.
How did Serena have it?
Internal pharmacy records showed Helen’s medication had been discontinued weeks earlier due to excessive sedation.
Several tablets were supposed to be destroyed according to facility procedure.
They weren’t.
A medication technician had marked them disposed.
Security footage later showed Marcus entering the medication office after hours during a “facility tour.”
The technician admitted Marcus asked about returned medications.
Then Serena visited the next day.
No direct camera showed a handoff.
But text:
Got what you asked for.
Serena:
How many?
Marcus:
Enough.
That was brutal.
Not because of sophistication.
May you like
Because of casualness.
They treated medication like office supplies.
