Not the Mafia

Josh was yet another patient who’d come to my office requesting a dangerous, over-the-top cocktail of addictive medications prescribed to him by Dr. Solbern. It was time to handle this problem the old-fashioned way.

PART II

I remember the first time I met one of Dr. Solbern’s patients. Ruchy was a young woman who had booked an appointment with me for ADHD and told me she needed a refill of her Vyvanse. When she told me the dose, I nearly fell off of my chair.

“You take 150 mg a day?! That’s twice the maximum dosage approved by the Ministry of Health,” I responded with honest shock.

Ruchy was either abusing this medication and at risk of serious adverse effects —including bursting her heart — or selling it on the streets.