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Over the past decade, out-of-state drug companies shipped 20.8 million prescription painkillers to two pharmacies four blocks apart in a Southern West Virginia town with 2,900 people, according to a congressional committee investigating the opioid crisis.
Between 2006 and 2016, drug wholesalers shipped 10.2 million hydrocodone pills and 10.6 million oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy and Hurley Drug in Williamson, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data obtained by the House Committee.
Springboro, Ohio-based Miami-Luken sold 6.4 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy from 2008 to 2015, the company disclosed to the panel. That’s more than half of all painkillers shipped to the pharmacy those years. In a single year (2008 to 2009), Miami-Luken’s shipments increased three-fold to the Mingo County town.
In February 2016, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey ended a state lawsuit against Miami-Luken after the company agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle allegations that it flooded the state with painkillers. Morrisey, a former lobbyist for a trade group that represents Miami-Luken and other drug distributors, inherited the lawsuit in 2013 after ousting longtime Attorney General Darrell McGraw.
originally posted by: 3daysgone
a reply to: seasonal
How else do you think the enemies of America are going to invade us?
originally posted by: starviego
In the same vein, there are only a few big chemical firms worldwide that make the drug ephedrine, which is the basis for methamphetamine manufacture. And you can bet they know damn well where their product is ending up.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
Talk about "feeling no pain."
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: 3daysgone
The enemies of the US?
This seems to be more about the profits of corps being raises every quarter than any conspiracy by an outside enemy. Seems corps are the enemy in this story (again).
Do you have a different view?
originally posted by: 3daysgone
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: 3daysgone
The enemies of the US?
This seems to be more about the profits of corps being raises every quarter than any conspiracy by an outside enemy. Seems corps are the enemy in this story (again).
Do you have a different view?
They are doing is destroying the lives of citizens of the U.S. by flooding our communities with their medication, controlling the percentage of our population that are susceptible to addiction, rendering them powerless to lead productive lives. I understand it is a choice each of us has to make, whether we get addicted to these pills, but when the corporations are putting them out there to make it harder for that percentage of U.S. citizens I would consider that an act of war on our population as a whole. That is my view. The true enemies of the U.S. does not have the best interest of it's citizens in mind.
originally posted by: roadgravel
The DEA tried to get the DOJ involved in this sort of thing with McKesson but the DOJ thought it was "too difficult".
originally posted by: Blue Shift
Talk about "feeling no pain."