Report: DEA records show West Virginia flooded with drugs

Monday, December 19, 2016 - 15:01 in Health & Medicine

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728 people fatally overdosed on these two painkillers, according to an investigation by the Charlotte Gazette-Mail....

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