“I showed up to say goodbye,” Mike says, “just as Dilaudid was bringing its soft hammer to bear on his habit of silence.”

So, too, are her medical barbs, like the one where she reckons Dilaudid is a combination of “deluded” and “defrauded.”

In addition to painkillers Fentanyl and Dilaudid, Andrew Schmuhl was taking Xanax for his insomnia and Clomid for low testosterone.