West Virginia has received 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills over a six-year period. The West Virginia Sunday Gazette-Mail has been investigating the rise in fatal overdoses from those two prescribed painkillers and the numbers are staggering.The trail of painkillers leads to West Virginia’s southern coalfields, to places like Kermit, population 392.

There, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly 9 million highly addictive — and potentially lethal — hydrocodone pills over two years to a single pharmacy in the Mingo County town.

Source: Drug companies send 780,000,000 painkillers to West Virginia, including 9 mil to town of 392 people