the drug's ledger kept in the teeth — "Several of the Ennet House residents…"
Several of the Ennet House residents who’d hit bottom with the glass pipe had no teeth or blackened and disintegrating teeth; the sight of Wade McDade’s or Chandler Foss’s teeth gave Joelle the fantods like nothing at meetings could.
Context
The body files the bill the mind ducked: freebase goes straight for the enamel, and the house's casualties carry the invoice in their mouths — stumps and blackened rows shown off over supper. The tell in the last clause is that these mouths frighten her worse than any meeting's testimony can; the horror the program narrates in words the pipe has already written in bone.