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Drug Companies Profit from Opioid Epidemic While Regulators Look the Other Way


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Drug wholesalers sent 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills into West Virginia over six years, according to an investigation by the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Meanwhile, 1,728 West Virginians died from overdoses of these two powerful painkillers. Who let it happen? Investigative reporter Eric Eyre, of the Charleston Gazette-Mail, answered our questions about his series on The Front Porch.
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