When Medicine Makes You Sick

En español | Los Angeles civil attorney Lisa Herbert (not her real name), 61, was shopping at Trader Joe’s one evening in June 2009 when she suddenly became disoriented. For an hour she wandered the aisles in a haze, filling her cart with chocolate cupcakes and frozen tamales. At home she talked incessantly, yelled at her roommate, and—convinced she had found an ingenious way to clean the apartment—yanked a fire extinguisher off the wall and sprayed the kitchen and bathroom with a thick white foam. … Back to Article