Drug firms shipped 20.8M pain pills to WV town with 2,900 people

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Between 2006 and 2016, drug wholesalers shipped 10.2 million hydrocodone pills and 10.6 million oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy and Hurley Drug in Williamson, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data obtained by the House Committee.

Springboro, Ohio-based Miami-Luken sold 6.4 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy from 2008 to 2015, the company disclosed to the panel. That’s more than half of all painkillers shipped to the pharmacy those years. In a single year (2008 to 2009), Miami-Luken’s shipments increased three-fold to the Mingo County town.

The drug wholesaler shipped 5.7 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to Save-Rite and a branch pharmacy called Sav-Rite #2 between 2005 and 2011, according records Miami-Luken gave the committee. In 2008, the company provided 5,624 prescription pain pills for every man, woman and child in Kermit.

The House committee questioned H.D. Smith’s painkiller shipments to Family Discount Pharmacy in Logan County. The drug shipper distributed 3,000 hydrocodone tablets a day to the pharmacy in 2008, a 10-fold increase in sales from the previous year, according to the committee’s letter. The pharmacy, located in a town of 1,800 people, was shipped 1.1 million hydrocodone pills in 2008.

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MAGA ... :laugh:
 
I'm completely unsurprised. Pharmaceutical companies are legal drug dealers. They are just aiming to get more people hooked, so they can make more money. It's been like that for a while. That's why doctors get kickbacks for prescribing these medications while the safer medications you can grow in your backyard are criminalized. They are entirely to blame for the opioid epidemic.

Thanks Big Pharma. :fu:
 
Wait........I thought Black drug dealers were coming from NY impregnating white women and selling the drugs?

That's what Gov LePage said.
 
Bourbon said:
Between 2006 and 2016, drug wholesalers shipped 10.2 million hydrocodone pills and 10.6 million oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy and Hurley Drug in Williamson, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data obtained by the House Committee.

Springboro, Ohio-based Miami-Luken sold 6.4 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy from 2008 to 2015, the company disclosed to the panel. That’s more than half of all painkillers shipped to the pharmacy those years. In a single year (2008 to 2009), Miami-Luken’s shipments increased three-fold to the Mingo County town.

The drug wholesaler shipped 5.7 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to Save-Rite and a branch pharmacy called Sav-Rite #2 between 2005 and 2011, according records Miami-Luken gave the committee. In 2008, the company provided 5,624 prescription pain pills for every man, woman and child in Kermit.

The House committee questioned H.D. Smith’s painkiller shipments to Family Discount Pharmacy in Logan County. The drug shipper distributed 3,000 hydrocodone tablets a day to the pharmacy in 2008, a 10-fold increase in sales from the previous year, according to the committee’s letter. The pharmacy, located in a town of 1,800 people, was shipped 1.1 million hydrocodone pills in 2008.

Read more: https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/...cle_ef04190c-1763-5a0c-a77a-7da0ff06455b.html

MAGA ... :laugh:
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Idea: Instead of attempting to prosecute the LEGAL sales of drug and the legal businesses that sale them...LEGALLY, why not just pass a law that makes them ILLEGAL? You know why..exactly. These same fake ass politicians that are bitching and putting on a show are taking LOBBY MONIES from the Big Chemical Manufactuer's. The answer is to prosecute the lobby industry and the problem will solve itself. If there's no legal supply there will be no legal distribution firms to prosecute for attempting to make a profit in a supposed FREE MARKET ECONOMY.

I am very familiar with the case in which you speak. Do you know just how many "indictments" were handed down to those who legally moved those drugs? -0-. It was and remains nothing but a political dog and phony show and will be until the industry of LOBBYING is made illegal.

This supposed drug epidemic is just like the 2nd amendment Bull Shit. You can't fix the problem if the only one's you want to void of their rights and attempt to prosecute are those working within the Rule of Law as per the limits of a constitutional right. Fire the damn politicians that have allowed this Bullshit.....not the hard working people who are more than crossing every "i" and dotting every "t" under a Federal Microscope. Prosecute the pill mill physicians and drug companies (after you change the laws).
 
Ralph said:
Idea: Instead of attempting to prosecute the LEGAL sales of drug and the legal businesses that sale them...LEGALLY, why not just pass a law that makes them ILLEGAL? You know why..exactly. These same fake ass politicians that are bitching and putting on a show are taking LOBBY MONIES from the Big Chemical Manufactuer's. The answer is to prosecute the lobby industry and the problem will solve itself. If there's no legal supply there will be no legal distribution firms to prosecute for attempting to make a profit in a supposed FREE MARKET ECONOMY.

I am very familiar with the case in which you speak. Do you know just how many "indictments" were handed down to those who legally moved those drugs? -0-. It was and remains nothing but a political dog and phony show and will be until the industry of LOBBYING is made illegal.

This supposed drug epidemic is just like the 2nd amendment Bull Shit. You can't fix the problem if the only one's you want to void of their rights and attempt to prosecute are those working within the Rule of Law as per the limits of a constitutional right. Fire the damn politicians that have allowed this Bullshit.....not the hard working people who are more than crossing every "i" and dotting every "t" under a Federal Microscope. Prosecute the pill mill physicians and drug companies (after you change the laws).
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CITIZEN UNITED ... The more you try to go after Lobbies, the more Money and Lawyers they will throw it you. It's a contest to see who runs out of money first. My money is on them, if I was betting.
 
TrippyHippy said:
I'm completely unsurprised. Pharmaceutical companies are legal drug dealers. They are just aiming to get more people hooked, so they can make more money. It's been like that for a while. That's why doctors get kickbacks for prescribing these medications while the safer medications you can grow in your backyard are criminalized. They are entirely to blame for the opioid epidemic.

Thanks Big Pharma. :fu:
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It's been like that for decades. The first job I had after h.s. was working PT as an office assistant in a physician's office. There was one room in the office suite about the size of a small bedroom with shelving along the walls and cabinets in the middle, filled with drug samples. At least once a week a pushe.... um, pharm rep would come in with a satchel, hand the doc med lit and boxes of samples, and talk up the latest stuff. That was in 1972. They also used to come to hospitals and chat up the house docs and nurse managers and hand out lit and samples (to the physicians, not the nurses). And that doesn't even begin to mention the perks -- cruises, dinners at upscale restaurants, weekends at resorts. My sister (nurse manager) and her husband got a free cruise to the Caribbean from a pharm company. An interesting side note: my brother-in-law was so incensed at this crap (he was also an RN at the time) that he quit nursing, went to law school, and worked the earlier part of his law career as a malpractice attorney. He insists to this day that the pharm companies are poisoning people rather than providing cures. In many cases, he's absolutely right.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
I wonder if something illegal was going on......
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Probably but not necessarily. In addition to walk-in customers, some pharmacies fill online orders. etc for other companies, or contract services. For instance, getting a prescription filled in a timely manner and getting the whole thing at once is not something that is going to happen at the walgreen's closest to me because they spend so much time filling prescription orders for nursing homes throughout the region with whom they have contracts and those contracts get first priority. It is why I don't use them any more. Takes forever and you may have to make 2 or 3 trips before you get all the pills that were prescribed as they notoriously only partial fill prescriptions.
 
Bourbon said:
CITIZEN UNITED ... The more you try to go after Lobbies, the more Money and Lawyers they will throw it you. It's a contest to see who runs out of money first. My money is on them, if I was betting.
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Have another drink.

BTW, "lobbies", "money" and "lawyers" aren't proper nouns.
 
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