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Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses<\/a><\/p>\n

This story isn’t just rewriting AP wire copy and adding in a few totally unrelated incidents culled from 5 minutes of Lexis Nexis searches.<\/p>\n

The motivation isn’t particularly obvious. The paper has a reputation of being labor union friendly, and the Teamsters were involved in the creation of the story. Charleston is the capital of West Virginia. Perhaps there is some legislative proposal up for consideration next year. I suspect this has a personal link where people at the newspaper know people who died from this. To date, the primary response of government has been to mandate that first responders carry treatments for opioids overdose so the addict can live to repeat the processs next week.<\/p>\n

Part of the reason I wanted out of Connecticut was my growing awareness of the pervasive abuse of prescription drugs that I had been completely oblivious to, and how the social services entities were feeding the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses This story isn’t just rewriting AP wire copy and adding in a few totally unrelated incidents culled from 5 minutes of Lexis Nexis searches. The motivation isn’t particularly obvious. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17725,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17723\/revisions\/17725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}