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" Out-of-state drug companies....
Sell NINE MILLION pills in 2 years....
To ONE pharmacy...
In a town whose population is 392. No bells went off, no red flags flown.
And the question is not why 1,728 West Virginians died of Oxy overdose in six years, nor is it why so FEW died.
The question is how do drug companies get away with it, and the answer is money.
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HALLIE JACKSON, MSNBC: In West Virginia a new investigation revealing an eye-popping number of painkillers headed into the state. According to a new report from the Charleston Gazette-Mail, drug companies shower the with 780 million painkillers in six years. What does that mean? break it down. 433 pills for every single man, woman and child in the state. Over those six years this report found overdose deaths increased by 67%. All the while heads of the drug firms collected salaries and bonuses in the tens of millions of dollars. The new investigation and following the story. Eric Eyre, walk us through what we should know about really thousands of pages of documents you guys pulled.
ERIC EYRE, CHARLESTON GAZETTE-MAIL: We got all of the sales data for all of the pharmacies where the drug distributors shipped two particular pain pills. One was hydrocodone most people know as lortab or norco and oxycontin. What we found is there was a large number of overdose deaths caused by those two specific drugs. Over the same period there were 780 million pills of both of those particular pain pills that were shipped to West Virginia. The overwhelming majority here, the disproportionate number of pills was shipped to southern West Virginia which we call them the southern coal fields, the poorest and most rural counties.
JACKSON: You talk about the large number of overdose deaths. We have a graphic on the screen now. The top four counties for fatal overdoses caused by pain pills in the US. All four in West Virginia. That shows the extent of the problem. What are legislators, people you're talking to, experts in your state trying to do? "
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/12/nine-million-oxy-pills-one-pharmacy-town
Sell NINE MILLION pills in 2 years....
To ONE pharmacy...
In a town whose population is 392. No bells went off, no red flags flown.
And the question is not why 1,728 West Virginians died of Oxy overdose in six years, nor is it why so FEW died.
The question is how do drug companies get away with it, and the answer is money.
______________________
HALLIE JACKSON, MSNBC: In West Virginia a new investigation revealing an eye-popping number of painkillers headed into the state. According to a new report from the Charleston Gazette-Mail, drug companies shower the with 780 million painkillers in six years. What does that mean? break it down. 433 pills for every single man, woman and child in the state. Over those six years this report found overdose deaths increased by 67%. All the while heads of the drug firms collected salaries and bonuses in the tens of millions of dollars. The new investigation and following the story. Eric Eyre, walk us through what we should know about really thousands of pages of documents you guys pulled.
ERIC EYRE, CHARLESTON GAZETTE-MAIL: We got all of the sales data for all of the pharmacies where the drug distributors shipped two particular pain pills. One was hydrocodone most people know as lortab or norco and oxycontin. What we found is there was a large number of overdose deaths caused by those two specific drugs. Over the same period there were 780 million pills of both of those particular pain pills that were shipped to West Virginia. The overwhelming majority here, the disproportionate number of pills was shipped to southern West Virginia which we call them the southern coal fields, the poorest and most rural counties.
JACKSON: You talk about the large number of overdose deaths. We have a graphic on the screen now. The top four counties for fatal overdoses caused by pain pills in the US. All four in West Virginia. That shows the extent of the problem. What are legislators, people you're talking to, experts in your state trying to do? "
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/12/nine-million-oxy-pills-one-pharmacy-town
