Congressional Report Finds Millions of Opioids Sent to Small-Town Pharmacies in West Virginia

Congressional Report Finds Millions of Opioids Sent to Small-Town Pharmacies in West Virginia
Oxycodone pain pills prescribed for a patient with chronic pain lie on display in Norwich, Conn., on March 23, 2016. John Moore/Getty Images
Sarah Le
Sarah Le
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Nearly nine million opioids were shipped to a single pharmacy in the small town of Kermit, West Virginia, population 406, in just two years, according to a Congressional report released on Dec. 19.

In 10 years, 20.8 million opioids were distributed to pharmacies in Williamson, with a population of 3,000 people. From 2007 and 2012, drug distributors sent a total of more than 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia.

Sarah Le
Sarah Le
reporter
Sarah Le is an editor for The Epoch Times in Southern California. She lives with her husband and two children in Los Angeles.
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