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Report: DEA records show W. Va. flooded with painkillers

December 20, 2016

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728 people fatally overdosed on these two painkillers, according to an investigation by the Charleston Gazette-Mail....

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