West Virginia Town of 3,000 Received 21 Million Opioid Pills Over 10 Years
A letter sent by a House committee demands answers from drug companies that sent millions of opioid pills flooding into multiple towns in rural West Virginia. In just 10 years, nearly 21 million pills were distributed to two pharmacies in a single town.
Dangerous Deluge
An ongoing investigation by the House Energy and Commerce Committee has found that drug companies are dumping staggering amounts of highly addictive and dangerous opioid pills into small towns in West Virginia. Over the course of ten years (2006 – 2016) nearly 21 million pills of hydrocodone and oxycodone were sent to just two pharmacies in Williamson, West Virginia, a tiny town with a population of only 3,191, according to the latest census data.
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