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Three years ago, a remarkable thing happened to Karen Mankins, a registered nurse who manages an assisted living community (a private pay one, meaning, it’s pricey) in Carmel. She had an elderly patient who was jacked up on all kinds of prescriptions: Norco for back fractures, anti-nausea to knock down the effects of the Norco, anti-anxiety pills, sleeping pills. Taken together, they barely knocked down the pain, but they wiped out her appetite and turned her into a zombie.