Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial by Alison Bass

Author:Alison Bass
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-12-20T15:27:00+00:00

THE NIGHT OF THE lecture was overcast with the kind of brisk November wind that chills right through to the bones. The leafless limbs of the trees surrounding the Butler campus looked stark and lonely in the reflected lights of the cars driving up to park. In the brightly lit Ray Conference Center, seats were rapidly filling with people. Howard and Sahlin were busy greeting parents and guests and preparing the podium. The plan was for Sahlin to introduce Howard as the guest speaker. As Howard passed by the table near the entrance where NAMI placed its education literature, she noticed a stack of lime green brochures that hadn't been there before. She looked closer: they were the COBY brochures.

Howard couldn't breathe. It felt as if someone had just punched her in the gut. In the shock of that moment, she realized that Sahlin had taken the money from Butler as a quid pro quo after all and hadn't had the courage to admit it. After a few seconds, Howard straightened up and grabbed the stack of brochures from the table. She looked around. Someone from Brown was also passing out the flyers to families as they entered the auditorium. Howard strode over to two NAMI volunteers setting up floor microphones nearby.

"Would you do me a favor?" she asked them in a casual voice. "These flyers aren't supposed to be distributed tonight; someone made a mistake. Would you go around and scoop up as many of them as you can?"

"Sure." The women were happy to be of assistance. "What do you want us to do with them?"

"Just give them to me," she said.

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