The Adults in the Room by Jeffrey Mechling

Author:Jeffrey Mechling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller, Conspiracy Thriller, Deep State Conspiracy, Government Conspiracy, Amnesia Thriller, Political Thriller, Deep State, CIA Thriller, The Adults in the Room, Mystery/Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure, Spy Thriller, Suspense
Publisher: Jeffrey Mechling
Published: 2019-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Tim wandered far away from Pam and her pending phone conversation with Sebastian. Although it may have been helpful for him to hear how his wife actually interacted with Sebastian, he really didn’t feel like listening. He knew it would just piss him off.

He found himself in the section of the pharmacy where sleep aids were sold. There were certainly several different kinds of sleep aid products that did not require a prescription. Tim’s philosophy about insomnia was that, if you stayed awake long enough, you would certainly go to sleep at some point. The fact that so many people bought sleeping pills indicated to him that they would rather be asleep most of the time.

On Tim’s right, he could hear two women having a conversation about filling out forms. Not just one form, but several forms. From what Tim could tell, the woman that needed to fill out the forms was some kind of doctor. At least, that was how the pharmacist was addressing her. “You will also need to fill out the back page as well, Dr. Lockwood.”

Tim didn’t think he knew any doctors by that name, but there was something familiar about the woman’s voice. He moved to the other end of the aisle for a better look, but she was still bent over, filling out the back page of the form.

When Tim was in school, there were not a lot of women doctors, but now they were all over the place. He was not a big fan of women doctors, mostly because he could never get any of them to write prescriptions for anything good (with “good” meaning opioid pain killers or benzodiazepines). But, of course, these days, no doctors would give you any decent painkillers unless your broke your back—and sometimes not even then. Tim placed the blame for that at the feet of the pharmaceutical industry for the invention of oxycodone.

Oxycodone was a long-acting and extended release painkiller that had been advertised to doctors as having a low rate of addiction, or at least that’s what Tim had read. But whoever made the low addiction claim must have been a lunatic—or at least an idiot. If these pills had been taken as directed, then perhaps the addiction rates would have remained low, but when do Americans do what they’re told? Oxycodone would get patients addicted very quickly, and addicted very quickly they became, in epidemic proportions. The government’s reaction was to pressure doctors to no longer prescribe anything with any relation to an opioid, and those that refused because of a silly notion that they knew better than the government (and the media) were rewarded with suspended medical licenses and jail time. The media and government demanded scapegoats, since someone had to be blamed. The opioid crisis, as the media had come to call it, was still a major problem, but the story had played itself out. The election results of that November night in 2016 had changed the conversation.

Tim was still thinking

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