found online by Raymond
From Green Eagle:
Here’s the result of an interesting investigation by the West Virginia Sunday Gazette-Mail, which I read about at Daily Kos:
“In six years, drug wholesalers showered the state with 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills, while 1,728 West Virginians fatally overdosed on those two painkillers…”
780 million. In case you are wondering, West Virginia has a population of approximately 1,850,000 people. One town, with under 400 people, received 9 million pills.