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How Drug Companies Flooded West Virginia With Opioid Pills


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This week, Eric Eyre and the Charleston Gazette-Mail won the Pulitzer Prize for their investigation into drug wholesalers flooding West Virginia with opioid pills. On this Front Porch podcast, we talk about what drug companies did with Eyre, and to what degree they're responsible for the record number of overdose deaths in West Virginia. Drug wholesalers sent 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills into West Virginia over six years, according to an investigation by the Charleston Gazette
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