Unsealed Records Show Drug Firms Flooded Rural West Virginia With Painkillers

May 27, 2016

  • May 27, 2016 at 2:09 pm
    mrbobf says:
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    Although I fully agree there is a huge problem in our country with abuse of narcotics, I am perplexed as to how the wholesaler of the product is to blame when you have doctors and pharmacist who are licensed professionals that should be the gate keepers.

    • May 27, 2016 at 4:12 pm
      Rosenblatt says:
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      I’m sure there’s more to this story than what’s presented here since the records haven’t been published yet. That said…

      “The records show one distributor shipped more than 300,000 hydrocodone tablets over four years to a pharmacy in War, population 808.”

      Presuming the store didn’t order all of those pills, why did the manufacturer ship so many? That’s 75,000 pills a year, or 93 pills per person regardless of their age or ailments. Talk about flooding the market! Having that many pills kept in a mom-and-pop store in a place that doesn’t have the need for all those pills is just begging for thievery to take place.

  • July 26, 2016 at 5:45 pm
    Truthspoon says:
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    Murderers by proxy. They ship more pills they get a raise. That’s all they think about. That’s business and that’s why it’s destroying this planet.



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