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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Stupid hillbillies!! Just what we need, backwards inbreds that are stoned !!
Those legal drug dealers should be delt with. The problem is no one holds them accountable.
Start holding doctors accountable. They are prescribing this c**p.
And what do you propose to do with those who live with legitimate pain everyday? Should they have to suffer?
Visit a doctor to destroy your life and become a addict
That is a problem
Pain is s problem
No one is around to help those in need —giving drugs is better than the suffering etc when no one is there to help to
It’s a society problem
A lot of work needs to be done
I know this addictive who sells his drugs and lives off the money
Dam doctor!
I know a nurse practitioner , this clinic lost 1/3 of there business cuz he will not give the drugs etc
Clinic is angry
Some people live in constant pain, they need relief, surgery failed, so then where do they turn??
Shipped from where by who?