Over the past decade, out-of-state drug companies shipped 20.8 million prescription painkillers to two pharmacies four blocks apart in a Southern West Virginia town with 2,900 people, according to a congressional committee investigating the opioid crisis.The House Energy and Commerce Committee cited the massive shipments of hydrocodone and oxycodone two powerful painkillers to the town of Williamson, in Mingo County, amid the panels inquiry into the role of drug distributors in the opioid epidemic.These numbers are outrageous, and we will get to the bottom of how this destruction was able to be unleashed across West Virginia, said committee…
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