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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wonder who looks like they are taking the pain killers in this photo.
Donald Angelo and Brenda Ross most these doctors do hand out pain pills to anyone for any reason and that is wrong and these doctor should never allow anyone to get additided to pain pills
Now I know why I’ve had to suffer debilitating chronic pain these last five months. I am NOT a pill seeker I hurt and I hurt really bad I’m lucky to get an hour of sleep at a time because the pain is so bad. Even if I do sleep the pain creeps into my subconscious so I don’t feel as I’ve even slept.
Pain pills do not work on me, all they do is take the edge off. And here I thought it was bc of all the druggies. I absolutely hate to take pills. I take as few as possible. I am old and tired of suffering. It makes me wish for euthanasia.
There is 26000 people in Mingo County WV and they are talking percentages. It’s misleading, to make conclusive statements on such small numbers.
Where do you think the heroin that’s flooding this country is really coming from?????
I’m 52 I go into the doctor for stiches on my finger. Ask what drug I’m on . Tell them none , I’m told blood pressure is high may need high blood pressure pills . But need to make another appointment .
That explains all the idiots in West Virginia voting in Trump..!!!!
Well this is crazy but at least maybe those who need will get. Due to that fact of crack down on pain Messi can not get my meds. No I am not addicted and never have been. Does my body have a natural high tolerance to pain killers yes. So only opioid meds work former and he’ll only for a couple hrs on a normal dose.i only took them when I was in absolute pain or in so much pain after no sleep for a couple days due to pain I took them. Normally highest dosage of perc 30 day supply would last me 6-8 months. A 30 day supply is1 pill like every 4 hrs. 4 hr time frame would last maybe 1 or two with my tolerance and metabolism. I have always been that way. Hell even a dentist has to do triple or more shots to numb me
Sad for addicts but there are others in society who suffer and are little cared for. I have peripheral naturopathy and opiates ease the pain. Not once have i taken them outside prescribed limits. Yet, they are difficult to come by.
Need to be replaced w thc tincture