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Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
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2020
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“For the first time, we could calculate the six-year total for the entire state. There were two ways to do it. Simply add up all the pills the pharmacies bought. Or add up each distributor’s deliveries to every county. Both methods produced the same number—780 million. That was just hydrocodone and oxycodone—in a state with fewer than 1.8 million people.”
― Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
― Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
“In the sixteenth century, Swiss chemist Paracelsus coined the adage “the dose makes the poison.” It’s a fundamental principle of toxicology: High concentrations of any substance can kill. In this case, prescription opioids were particularly deadly. The coal barons no longer ruled Appalachia. Now it was the painkiller profiteers.”
― Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
― Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
“For the first time, we could calculate the six-year total for the entire state. There were two ways to do it. Simply add up all the pills the pharmacies bought. Or add up each distributor’s deliveries to every county. Both methods produced the same number—780 million. That was just hydrocodone and oxycodone—in a state with fewer than 1.8 million people. During those same years, 1,728 West Virginians fatally overdosed on those two painkillers, according to data sent to me by epidemiologists at the state Health Statistics Center.”
― Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
― Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
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