Nearly 8,000 people in Cabell County, West Virginia are currently living with opioid use disorder.
Three pharmaceutical companies distributed 81 million opioid painkillers in a West Virginia county over an eight-year period, but the federal judge ruled they were not liable for the damage done by the opioid epidemic.A community in West Virginia is planning to appeal a ruling handed down Monday by a federal judge who concluded that three pharmaceutical companies are not liable for the vast damage done to the area by their shipments of millions of opioids.
The volume of pills shipped to the county was enough to distribute 94 pills to every resident per year.
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