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Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com)

A congressional committee investigating the opioid crisis has discovered out-of-state drug companies shipped 20.8 million prescription painkillers over a decade to two pharmacies in a Southern West Virginia town with 2,900 people. From a report: Between 2006 and 2016, two drug wholesalers shipped 10.2 million hydrocodone pills and 10.6 million oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy and Hurley Drug in the town of Williamson, in Mingo County, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported. "These numbers are outrageous, and we will get to the bottom of how this destruction was able to be unleashed across West Virginia," the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore. and ranking member Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J. said in a joint statement.

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  1. If I lived in West Virginia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would get high every day too.

    1. Re:If I lived in West Virginia by amicusNYCL · · Score: 4, Funny

      realistically how many people per thousand actually need heavy opiates?

      According to drug manufacturers and wholesalers? About 1,000.

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  2. Re:Almost Heaven, West Virginia by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It wasn't detected until AI deep learning software was invented this year.

  3. Fake news! by OzPeter · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is all the work of criminal latino gangs. These gangs forced the poor people of the great state of West Virginia into the offices of innocent Doctors and coerced those brave and hardworking Doctors into writing prescriptions for the drugs.

    It is only by building a great and yuge wall (the best wall, the most beautiful wall) that we can stop the spread of drugs affecting the little babies all over the country. And today great American companies like Purdue Pharma (real heroes of the economy I tell you) have come out a stated that a wall is the best thing we can do for our country.

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  4. Re:Almost Heaven, West Virginia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    --Whoosh!
    select * from lame_ass_slashdot_comments
    where user_id = 'anonymous'
    and comment_title like '%Almost Heaven%'
    and comment_snark_level = 'high'
    and commenter_is_a_pompous_ass is not null
    ;

  5. Re:Almost Heaven, West Virginia by DavidHumus · · Score: 4, Funny
    > If I ordered 5000 ampules would anyone notice?

    Well, yeah, now they would. Thanks a lot, West Virginia.

  6. Re:Almost Heaven, West Virginia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Her B.S is in home economics, bitch better get back in that kitchen, my sandwich isn't gonna make itself!

  7. Re:Almost Heaven, West Virginia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing Marsha Blackburn supports has a bright side.

    Marsha Blackburn supports incandescent light bulbs. Idiotic? Maybe. But you can't claim it doesn't have a bright side.