{"id":67731,"date":"2018-01-30T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67731"},"modified":"2018-01-30T08:53:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:53:16","slug":"drug-firms-shipped-20-8m-pain-pills-to-west-virginia-town-with-2900-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67731","title":{"rendered":"Drug firms shipped 20.8M pain pills to West Virginia town with 2,900 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade, out-of-state drug companies shipped 20.8 million prescription painkillers to two pharmacies four blocks apart in a Southern West Virginia town with 2,900 people, according to a congressional committee investigating the opioid crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The House Energy and Commerce Committee cited the massive shipments of hydrocodone and oxycodone \u2014 two powerful painkillers \u2014 to the town of Williamson, in Mingo County, amid the panel\u2019s inquiry into the role of drug distributors in the opioid epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese numbers are outrageous, and we will get to the bottom of how this destruction was able to be unleashed across West Virginia,\u201d said committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., and ranking member Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvgazettemail.com\/news\/health\/drug-firms-shipped-m-pain-pills-to-wv-town-with\/article_ef04190c-1763-5a0c-a77a-7da0ff06455b.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade, out-of-state drug companies shipped 20.8 million prescription painkillers to two pharmacies four blocks apart in a Southern West Virginia town with 2,900 people, according to a congressional committee investigating the opioid crisis. The House Energy and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67731\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67734,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67731\/revisions\/67734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}