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has the article been posted about investigations into drug companies shipping millions of opioid pills to towns in WV (and other states) with

Posted by colin (aka colinski) Jan 31 '18, 09:35

populations of less than a few thousand? horrific practices.

The last bit of the article is infuriating: West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey was a former lobbyist for a trade group that represented Miami-Luken and other drug companies. In 2016, Morrisey ended several state lawsuits with drug companies, including one with Miami-Luken. The lawsuits, filed by the state’s former attorney general, Darrell McGraw, alleged that the companies flooded the state with opioid painkillers.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/drug-companies-submerged-wv-in-opioids-one-town-of-3000-got-21-million-pills/ (arstechnica.com)

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I posted one from a WV paper about the WV numbers yesterday -- nm - ty97 Jan 31, 09:36 1
- ah, i see it now -- nm - colin Jan 31, 09:38

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