Big Pharma execs mocked West Virginia, Kentucky as opioid overdoses soared: report

Big Pharma execs mocked West Virginia, Kentucky as opioid overdoses soared: report
Michael Ruiz
Pharmaceutical executives mocked Kentucky and West Virginia residents as "Pillbillies" and drug addicts as concerns in both states grew over the opioid epidemic, according to emails recently unveiled in court.
In one, they shared a song "To the Tune of The Beverly Hillbillies," that included a line describing "OC," the drug oxycodone, as "Hillbilly Heroin."
The Mountain State Spotlight, a nonprofit West Virginia news outlet, reported that the emails were released by Cabell County Attorney Paull Farrell Jr. in federal court Thursday. They had been sent years ago, in 2011 and 2012, as opioid overdoses were skyrocketing.

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