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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Re:Almost Heaven, West Virginia

[110010001000]

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

Re:Almost Heaven, West Virginia

[DavidHumus]

> If I ordered 5000 ampules would anyone notice?

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

Re:If I lived in West Virginia

[amicusNYCL]

realistically how many people per thousand actually need heavy opiates?

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