HUNTINGTON — The next meeting of the Southside Neighborhood Organization will be 7-8 p.m. Thursday, June 3, at the Phil Cline Family YMCA, 917 9th St. in Huntington. Members will
At the height of the opioid crisis, millions upon millions of prescription pain pills flooded into Cabell County in West Virginia. The highly addictive and routinely overprescribed drugs were readily available from pharmacies for years, even as overdoses soared. Their delivery was a reliable, efficient and mechanical process, one that stood in stark contrast to the devastation they caused. This community of some 90,000 on the south bank of the.
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An estimated 7,874,965,825 people survived the fall of the Chinese rocket, although I can’t speak to the losses among the marine life off the Maldives. So we dodged that…ah…bullet over the weekend. However, there is other news going on in places like, say, Charleston, West Virginia, where one of our many unsolved crises has finally hit the federal courts.
We are now in the second week of a trial in which the three major U.S. distributors of opioids are being called to account for the incredible damage their product wreaked in two West Virginia counties, at a time when that state found itself flooded with opioids over the previous decades. An estimated (and staggering) 80 million pills were shipped to the area over eight years. From Reuters:
CHARLESTON — Accusers in a lawsuit alleging opioid wholesalers have fault in the Cabell County and Huntington drug crisis used a “heroine,” scientist, historian, social worker and health expert to