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. reporter: bosley said he would regularly return home from work with carol ann unconscious and barely breathing. you took pictures of your wife essentially unconscious. correct. reporter: must have been hard to do. very hard. reporter: he says he tried to show the photos to dr. webster and other staff members and tried calling the clinic to vent concerns. he was shut down with staff siting patient privacy or hip pa. you weren t so much asking
for information as you wanted to provide it. i said i am not asking for information and i was given the hippa excuse and that was the end of it. reporter: what does dr. web store have to say? despite the best efforts, not much. he did however respond to lawsuits filed against him and his clinic and denied responsibility for the deaths. we called a spokesperson. we certainly want to give them an opportunity to comment and respond. but he declined our interview so 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.
ann bosley died. her husband still wonders why his pleas for the help to the staff at life tree and especially lynn webster, fell on deaf ears. do you blame dr. webster for your wife s death? i do. to this day i regret that i did not go down there and find him. i would have pinned him to the wall, and i would have made him listen, and then i would have warned him with his life. leave my wife alone. wow. sanjay, it s clear dr. webster didn t want to talk to you. is he saying anything about the allegations against him? the allegations from the lawsuit specifically, he s denying all of those. previously, he has said he acknowledged were some 0 deaths at the life tree clinic, though, he says most of them were suicides. we read you part of the statement during the piece there, he had more of an official statement where he basically said the chronic pain has become this urgent national crisis and a direct dialogue is
reporter: soon afterward he says, carol ann got a call. she said dr. webster has requested that we come down, both of us come down and meet with him. reporter: to ray bosley s surprise, he said webster suggest carol ann get back on narcotic painkillers. my response to him is my wife is addicted. reporter: arthur abobout a y that appointment, after taking his advice, carol ann bosley overdosed again, this time fatal. her story does not end there. weeks after her death, the medical examiner had ruled her death a suicide. i said why did you label it suicide? and he says well, i called dr. webster, he told me she committed suicide. why do you have to call dr. webster to get a diagnosis? shouldn t the diagnosis be based on the evidence in front of you? reporter: the utah medical
a 360 exclusive, a chilling window on an epidemic, a surge in deaths from prescriptions. the drurg enforcement agency is investigating a utah doctor, an anesthesiologist and pain management specialist who is considered a leading expert how to safely prescribe powerful painkillers including of yoids. the accusations against him are stunning, but he still has his prescription pad. reporter: you don t want to answer questions? no. reporter: why is this man walking away from our cameras, refusing to answer questions? webster is considered a leader in the field of pain management.