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A contest deadline is approaching for West Virginia schoolchildren to raise awareness of prescription painkiller abuse.The Kids Kick Opioids contest is…
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Several West Virginia municipalities are suing The Joint Commission, claiming the Chicago-based health care accreditation group downplayed the dangers of…
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A former physician in West Virginia has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for writing a bogus prescription to get pain…
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West Virginia's Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin and two colleagues have introduced legislation that would require all states getting certain federal…
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Two major prescription drug distributors have agreed to pay $36 million to settle a West Virginia lawsuit alleging they fueled West Virginia's opioid…
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West Virginia's attorney general has sued a third pharmacy alleging it dispensed too many prescription painkillers and violated state consumer protection…
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West Virginia's attorney general has sued a second pharmacy alleging it dispensed too many prescription painkillers and violated state consumer protection…
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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…
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Information about pill shipments that prescription drug distributors being sued by the state had sought to keep secret show that the firms flooded rural…
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A man has been sentenced to 11 years and seven months in prison for a Florida-to-West Virginia pain pill trafficking operation.Forty-six-year-old William…