The American addiction to painkillers that every now and then makes some surprising waves. With drug companies showing that they’re shipping out more pain medications than most major drug stores have records of receiving, it makes you wonder where it’s all going? According to The Charleston Gazette, the trail of painkillers had led to West Virginia’s Mingo County, which has the fourth-highest prescription opioid death rate of any county in the United States.
From there, the trail goes through Wyoming County, where OxyContin shipments have doubles and the overdose death rate is the highest in the country. If these shipments aren’t going to stores like Rite-Aid, Walgreens or CVS, then where’s it all going? The answer is the independently run stores. For example, a mom and pop pharmacy in Oceana reportedly received 600 times as many oxycodone pills as the Rite Aid just eight blocks away.
Because the lawyers from these major companies shipping the pills out have worked hard to keep their manifests secret, it makes you wonder if they’re working with these small companies to take advantage of addicted peoples and populations.
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Chris Leonard Apparently 25% of the population are criminals. I can think of another couple of people that should be incarcerated!
LOOK, I MAKE A DEAL WITH YOU, TAKE ALL MY PAIN AWAY FROM ME AND I WON’T TAKE ANY MORE PAIN MEDS, YOU CAN’T BECAUSE I HAVE A VERY BAD BACK PROBLEMS. I HAVE 5 DISK IN MY BACK BETWEEN MY SHOULDERS THAT IS FUSED TOGETHER, PLUS I HAVE RA,THEN I HAVE 8 MORE DISK IN MY LOWER BACK IS HURT, A HIP THAT THE JOINT IS BAD, IT STAY OUT ALMOST ALL THE TIME, WELL THE LIST GOES ON ABOUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME, I WAS IN A CAR WRECK IN 1992 AND MY WHOLE RIGHT SIDE WAS DISLOCATED AND NEVER TO BE THE SAME SO I NEED THEM FOR PAIN TO EASE MY PAIN BECAUSE THEY DO NOT TAKE THE PAIN AWAY TOTAL. MY RA IS ENOUGH WITHOUT THE 5 DISK BEING FUSED TOGETHER, RA, PUTS YOU IN A WHEEL CHAIR, DON’T YOU KNOW THAT, DON’T JUDGE IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW OR WHAT PEOPLE TAKE HESE THINGS FOR, BELIEVE ME I WISH I DIDN’T HAVE TO TAKE THEM AND IF I DON’T I WON’T BE ABLE TO WALK OR TAKE CARE OF MY HOUSE WORK OR MY PLANTS I HAVE, SO DON’T JUDGE SOMETHING YOU DON’T KNOW NOTHING ABOUT, BUT I AGREE THERE IS SOME WHO TAKES THEM AND DON’T NEED THEM AND I HAVE NEVER GOT HIGH ON THEM SO I DON’T SEE WHAT THEY SEE IN THEM TO JUST TAKE THEM WITHOUT HAVING ANY PAIN.
Keep em stoned and theyll vote democrap next time
Don’t exercise or do yoga! Take another pill! Smh…..
We were smart enough to get Trump elected.
Looks like you need to clean up your house. What are you a democrat?
Shouldn’t be controlled the way it is.they create the problem.want to teach a child how capitalism works show them how farmers who made15 dollars a month now control an industry that’s fifth most profitable in the world
You may as well go join Isis idiot.
I think the problem is trying to discern who is truly in pain and needing versus a lie just to get the meds to sell or get high off of. Therein lies the rub.
But pain meds aren’t a whole answer either. Once the person takes for so long the body develops a tolerance and it begins to take more and more of the drug to achieve a positive outcome in relation to pain.
We have a big epidemic of drug overdose in the country and yet the country is bombarded with drug ads after drug ads after drug ads. Doesn’t anyone think that maybe it is time to get the drug ads out of the media and back into the doctors officers. This nation isn’t getting any healthier, minds are being destroy by drug use, now they want to add marijuana to the mix. Remember the reason you do not fine ads for alcohol and tobacco is because they are bad for your health.