Lawmakers: Drug distributors missed sketchy opioid sales

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers of both parties accused wholesale pharmaceutical distributors Tuesday of missing signs of suspicious activity resulting in hundreds of millions of prescription opioid pills being shipped to West Virginia, a state disproportionately ravaged by deaths caused by the addictive drugs.

To continue reading
For more than 115 years, the Southeast Missourian has written the first draft of local history. We have aspired to enrich, entertain, educate and inform. Our core values have remained firm: truth, service, quality, integrity and community. Support our mission.