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Drug firm poured 3M opioids into WV town in just 10 months, report says
Charleston Gazette Mail ^ | 12-19/2019 | Eric Eyre

Posted on 12/20/2018 12:47:45 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

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To: Responsibility2nd

oh no, not suspicious at all


21 posted on 12/20/2018 1:33:53 PM PST by BlackAdderess (I remember when a person's thoughts were their own and not everyone else's responsibility)
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To: cherry; All
our ever increasing sloth, drug eating, overeating, lazy and shiftless culture....

this is not the robust and hardy population that Teddy Roosevelt talked about..

no way does America survive the way this is going....

Khrushchev was right....they didn't need bombs to destroy America..

Interesting. In WW1 Kaiser Wilhelm frequently prowled around the area just behind the lines during major battles on the Westfront. Since he spoke English certainly better than many Americans today he several times stopped his caravan to speak to British/Empire soldiers or Americans who had been captured and were carrying/supporting a wounded comrade. In part it was to have his imperial flunkies stop an ambulance and have the wounded evacuated (Wilhelm was in some was a very kind and generous person his head was just unfortunately stuffed with crap). After one of these roadside visits in which he and an AEF infantry Sgt. discussed of all things TR. The Sgt seemed impressed the Kaiser considered himself a friend of TR and the very high opinion Wilhelm had of Roosevelt. The Sgt impressed the Kaiser and after he had gotten an ambulance stopped to evacuated a wounded US soldier the Sgt and another GI were helping along Wilhelm opined to his immediate staff in his field limo that the Sgt was a typical American, polite and respectful but with a strong sense of his self worth and his equality as a person with others. His concluding comment was ‘Gentlemen, that was a typical American and there are tens of millions of them. They are naturally hardy, brave and soldier like. They are going to give us huge problems and I don't know if we can hold them off.” Sadly a century has done a lot and not for the good to our population. The ‘average American’ of 1918 is fast being supplanted by what you describe above.

22 posted on 12/20/2018 1:36:17 PM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Culling the herd to bring in their replacements from Central America!


23 posted on 12/20/2018 1:36:47 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Responsibility2nd

Drug addiction is what big Pharma is all about.


24 posted on 12/20/2018 1:38:58 PM PST by Rebelbase
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White genocide.

Democrats are happy to see white people die any way and any how.


25 posted on 12/20/2018 1:40:03 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: cuban leaf

Is Jessco still alive?


26 posted on 12/20/2018 1:40:51 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: VanShuyten

I’m thinking it was on Longmire?


27 posted on 12/20/2018 1:42:19 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Responsibility2nd; All

get the names of politicians who own stock in these drugs -

Are stockholders names public record?

FOLLOW THE MONEY


28 posted on 12/20/2018 1:45:59 PM PST by maine-iac7 ( Christian is as Christian does mt-h)
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To: Responsibility2nd

These are distribution firms, wholesalers.

They ARE NOT drug firms.

DRUG FIRMS manufacture medications.


29 posted on 12/20/2018 2:00:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yeah. If this was MONEY, they would be audited by the IRS. I have to think the pills both fed (still feed) deadly addictions as well as facilitate and prolong vile criminal behaviors.


30 posted on 12/20/2018 2:16:59 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: jdietz

***The problem here starts in the doctors office. If there is blame start with the abuser and the doctor.***

Reminds me of the 1970s when some doctors offices had lines of people, out the door and around the corner waiting to get prescriptions for various “pills”.


31 posted on 12/20/2018 2:25:51 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Responsibility2nd

“nearly 10,000 pills a day on average”

And that’s proves what?

One pharmacist might have been making money by buying in large wholesale quantity and reselling in smaller lots.

Buy at 90 cents a pill and resell to your fellow pharmacists at $1 a pill is $1,000/day profit.

I’d like to make $1,000/day with maybe $100,000 in capital.

Much of lower Manhattan north of the Wall Street area was once a wholesale district.


32 posted on 12/20/2018 2:35:48 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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“McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health alone combined to ship more than 900 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills between 2005 and 2016.”

I believe they distribute a very large share of the entire US prescription drug market of about $300 billion/year.

McDonald’s sells lots of hamburgers.

It’s the wholesale distributors’ job to ship pills to pharmacies.

It’s the job of the State of West Virginia’s job to regulate its doctors and its pharmacists.


33 posted on 12/20/2018 2:43:40 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: cuban leaf

“Makes me want to watch my DVD of “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia” again.”

I’ve seen it at least 3 times already ... but now that you mention it, it’s probably time to watch it again!


34 posted on 12/20/2018 3:01:53 PM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: maine-iac7

get the names of politicians who own stock in these drugs -


Hell, forget politicians that own stock...in Bridgeport, WV (NOT a poor town by any stretch) a pharmicist who was also the MAYOR pleaded down to a charge of “ unlawfully distributing prescription painkillers”. For this, former mayor Mario Blunt got a whopping 36 months in the hoosgow to be followed by 36 months supervised release.

Can’t seem to find out how much time he actually served though.

http://www.connect-bridgeport.com/connect.cfm?func=view&section=News&item=Former-Bridgeport-Mayor-Mario-Blount-Sentenced-to-Serve-36-Months-in-Federal-Prison-on-Drug-Charges14371


35 posted on 12/20/2018 3:11:00 PM PST by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Responsibility2nd

“But, oh. They did have three marijuana dispensaries.”

Observed that same phenomenon in CO on vacation a couple of summers ago. The really successful small towns usually paired the MJ dispensary with a next-door tattoo parlor and a brew-pub restaurant down the street. Occasionally, a local/non-Starbucks coffee house was part of the formula.


36 posted on 12/20/2018 3:12:26 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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Don’t forget the fast food munchies place. If I were smart, I’d retire to Colorado and open of a junk food place right next door to the dope shop.

You remember the story a few months ago of that girl scout selling GS cookies right outside a dispensary? She sold cookies by the caseload.

Smart girl.


37 posted on 12/20/2018 3:17:18 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
the pill pushers should spend the rest of their natural lives in prison
38 posted on 12/20/2018 3:38:23 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

In 2007? I’m so glag Congress is on top of things!


39 posted on 12/20/2018 5:11:05 PM PST by monkeyshine
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To: cuban leaf

The fact no drug executive has their head on a pike over the opioid crisis shows the masses need to take their nation back

These people lied intentionally, and turned millions into addicts.. 70k a year now die so they can live in gated communities and profit from their lives being destroyed.

And not a one of them has faced any justice... nor will they.


40 posted on 12/20/2018 5:15:41 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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