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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All i can say is there must be a lot of crooked doctors. You must have a prescription to these drugs.
Why is obama not concerned about online drugs/drug abuse and get off guns? Oh right, drugs kill Americans where as Americans can protect themselves with guns! Obama supports anyone/thing that harms Americans! His Muslims are probably flooding this country with heroin. Aren’t poppies grown in that area?
Has anyone thought about these people that have lost everything, and have pain from a medical problem and if they are on Medicaid there not paying for a lot of treatment and giving them the pills, as if the government has never done that before.
Must be trying to clean out West Virginia for the Muslims.
Our whole society now has learned how to cheat to get some form of government assistance whether it’s welfare, disability, or food stamps!!!! I believe the drug problem has been fostered by government logistical support for distribution and manufacture of raw materials! How do they get all the drugs into the country unless most of it comes in shipping containers while somebody is paid to look the other way!!!!!!
are you talking about yourself there truthand nonaction, morons.
You people sound like a bunch of liberals…. Please government step in… The doctors are to blame… Big pharma is to blame… How about, let the free market dictate the dispensing of medication (in whatever form that takes) and keep government out of our lives…
dont take them
THESE DRUG COMPANIES ARE GUILTY OF SOO MANY LAWS ONLY AN HONEST ATTORNEY KNOWS FOR SURE, PREDATORS FOR SURE. LET’S TAKE IT TO THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY IN HEAVEN AND EARTH–GOD HIMSELF. JOIN ME IN PRAYER FOR JUSTICE TO PREVAIL. AMEN
WE ARE BEING USED AS A TESTING GROUND–TO SEE HOW MUCH IT TAKES TO WIPE MANY OUT..