Drug Companies Profit from Opioid Epidemic While Regulators Look the Other Way
It has to be the money - wholly rollers !!
1. What was the biggest surprise for you?
Drug wholesalers shipped enough painkillers to provide 433 pills for every man, woman and child in the state, Eyre said. And in parts of the southern West Virginia coalfields, the numbers were even higher.
“I was surprised that some of the smallest pharmacies had some of the biggest numbers,” Eyre said. For example, nearly 9 million hydrocodone pills to one pharmacy in Kermit, W.Va., population 392.
“In Oceana, one pharmacy received 600,000 – 700,000 oxycodone pills a year. The Rite Aid six blocks away gets 6,000.”
2. Did the drug wholesalers do anything illegal?
“They have a legal obligation to report these suspicious orders to the (federal) Drug Enforcement Agency,” and to the state Board of Pharmacy, Eyre said.
For years, none of them did. But after a lawsuit was filed by former state Attorney General Darrell McGraw, some wholesalers began to send suspicious order reports to the Board of Pharmacy.
3. What did the Board of Pharmacy do with those reports of suspicious orders from the drug wholesalers?
They put them in a box, Eyre said. They did not tell law enforcement or even tally the information on a computer.
Eyre asked the board’s director about this: “He said the law does not prescribe what they’re supposed to do with the suspicious report, only that they’re supposed to be file
WOW,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, pretty obvious what it going on........... $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
http://wvpublic.org/post/drug-companies-profit-opioid-epidemic-while-regulators-look-other-way
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