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>> reporter: okay. we got a statement. dr. webster said the clinic treated difficult and complicated people with pain with the highest standard of care. he went on to call the death as tragedy of the worst kind for patients to die not from a result of treatment, but in spite of it. >> she was doing great. she was up to walking almost five miles a day. >> reporter: several months after starting at life tree, carol ann bosley kicked the medicine and went to rehab. >> she lost weight and managing pain on tylenol, only. >> reporter: soon afterward he says, carol ann got a call. >> she said dr. web...

She's still functioning and doing what she needs to do? >> yes. >> reporter: but that would soon change when a friend suggested she go to the light tree clinic. >> carol ann was pretty much hooked. >> reporter: when you say hooked, you mean what? >> she was hooked on the pain medicine. she needed it. >> reporter: this is what carol ann was prescribed a year before her death, a painkiller and anxiety medication, between 100 and 120 pills a month. now fast forward one year. she was prescribed seven different drugs, painkillers, anti-anxiety bills and antidepressants, about 600 pills a month. the...

We decided to go straight to him. dr. webster, sanjay gupta with cnn. i'm wearing a microphone and i wonder if i can ask you some questions. >> i have an appointment now. >> reporter: will you sit down and talk to us afterwards? >> i have an appointment. >> reporter: after the appointment will you sit down and talk with us. can i walk with you? >> no. >> reporter: will you answer a couple questions? >> no. >> reporter: okay. we got a statement. dr. webster said the clinic treated difficult and complicated people with pain with the highest standard of care. he went on to call the death as trage...

Drugs, painkillers, anti anxiety, anti depresidents, about 600 pills a month. the same steep climb in medications allegedly was seen among other patients that died after getting chair at life tree. a 42-year-old prescribed about 200 pills a month when she first started at life tree. that's a little more than six pills a day. seven years later before she died of an overdose she was taking 1,158 pills per month. or about 40 each day. at the bosley home, a sad spectacle began unfolding. >> there were numerous times that we ended up in the emergency room for fear that she was going to die. >> repo...

>> she's still functioning and doing what she needs to do? >> yes. >> reporter: that changed when a friend suggested she go to the light tree clinic. >> carol ann was pretty much hooked. >> reporter: when you say hooked, you mean what? >> hooked on the pain medicine. she needed it. >> reporter: this is what carol ann was prescribed a year before her death, a painkiller and anxiety medication, between 100 and 120 pills a month. fast forward a year, she was prescribed seven different drugs, painkillers, anti anxiety, anti depresidents, about 600 pills a month. the same steep climb in medications...