If you want to know how the opioid epidemic spiraled out of control, it’s hard to do better than this statistic:
Between 2006 and 2016, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly 21 million opioid painkillers to two pharmacies in Williamson, West Virginia, population 2,900.
Over the same period, the number of opioid deaths in the US doubled to over 60,000 per year.
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