Drug distributors poured 20.8 million pain pills into a West Virginia town of 3,000, to two pharmacies four blocks apart in Williamson, W.Va., from 2006 to 2016. In the same period 4 million pain pills went to another pharmacy in Oceana, W.Va., a town of 1,390 people, that’s 689 pills for every man, woman and child in Oceana. The same company sent 7 million pain pills to a pharmacy in Beckley, a town of 16,000, and 6.3 million pain pills to two pharmacies in Kermit, a town of 400 people. One million hydrocodone pills in 2008 alone went to a pharmacy in Mount Gay-Shamrock, a town of about 1,779 people. Gee wonder what the problem is?
these are places where I did social work and flood relief. long history of graft, corruption, mayhem, moonshine, poverty, welfare fraud, and oodles of all sorts of drugs. also coal mining at one time. I don't want to paint with too broad a brush, but a lot of these towns are ugly. exceptions of course. also scary if an outsider.
ReplyDeleteit's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines
ReplyDeletedark as a dungeon and the sun seldom shines