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KY_EnviroGuy

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1. Doing a rough calculation...
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 04:07 AM
Jan 2018

that comes to approximately 20 pills per day per person over 365 days a year for every man, woman and child in that town. We all know that's impossible, so this stuff is being scripted out over a large area and into multiple states.

Similar number were shown for some other towns and counties in the state.

(snip - from article)
"The state has the highest drug overdose death rate in the nation. More than 880 people fatally overdosed in West Virginia in 2016.

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One part of the article that almost makes me ill is the fact that the distributors involved have been fined a couple of times, but the fines are just peanuts compared to the revenue they've made with these sales.

This probably is also a sign of the economic destitution these ex-coal mining areas are suffering.

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