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[quote=Anonymous]Really surprised this hasn't gotten any traction here. Basically the Post uncovered and analyzed data that big pharma and the government had wanted to keep under wraps, because it reveals the path of every opioid pill in the country, and it's not pretty - it reveals how the big pharma companies flooded the country with opioids and wherever they were shipped in large quantities to be peddled by pharmacies such as CVS and Walmart, that's where deaths increased. This was an engineered crisis.

This is what excellent journalism does - exposes nefarious things that the rich and powerful have tried to suppress and keep secret. When can we expect the president to voice his appreciation for this remarkable reveal by Post reporters, given how he likes to say that the opioid crisis is near and dear to him?

Surely all of you who bash the main stream media can acknowledge that this is an important piece of journalism and congratulate the Post on its fine work.

And yes, I am making this two topics - one about the opioid crisis. And the other about the demonizing of the main stream media by certain factions as the "enemy of the people." In fact they are an integral part of our democracy. Hat's off to yet another investigative scoop by the Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/opioid-death-rates-soared-in-communities-where-pain-pills-flowed/2019/07/17/f3595da4-a8a4-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html?utm_term=.16587e9dc404

[quote]Death rates from opioids soared in the towns, cities and counties that were saturated with billions of prescription pain pills from 2006 through 2012, according to government death data and a previously undisclosed database of opioid shipments made public this week.

The highest per capita death rates nationwide from opioids during those years were in rural communities in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. In those seven years, those communities also were flooded with a disproportionate share of the 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills from some of the country’s largest drug companies, an analysis by The Washington Post reveals.

The national death rate from opioids was 4.6 deaths per 100,000 residents. But the counties that had the most pills distributed per person experienced more than three times that rate on average. Thirteen of those counties had an opioid death rate more than eight times the national rate, according to the government data. Seven of them were in West Virginia. [/quote][/quote]

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