Dizzying Rise and Abrupt Fall for a Reservation Drug Dealer

Great article from today's Times...about a Lummi Indian woman out in Washington State who quickly went from poverty to "riches" by selling OxyContin. Article is kind of long, but worth it.

It mentions a couple whose baby died after eating an OxyContin pill off the carpet.

"The couple, Ms. Phair said, later tried to trade her the dead baby's clothes — a tiny down jacket, socks still on their Kmart plastic hangers and a batch of unused diapers in an open box, all of it stuffed into a black garbage bag — for OxyContin. She turned them down, she said."

Nice one, eh? But this woman did seem to have ethical boundaries. She also refused to smuggle drugs in religious articles.

The woman is out of jail now and struggling to make ends meet...makes just enough money to be ineligible for gov't assitance. She seems like a strong and smart woman. The times should do "where-are-they-now" articles. I'd read this one...truth is definitely more interesting than fiction.