Eric Eyre, Author at 100 Days in Appalachia

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Opioids on trial

Bankrupt Purdue Pharma Spending Thousands to Keep West Virginia Court Records Secret

by Eric Eyre on April 28, 2021 Comments are Disabled

This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. Get stories like this delivered to your email inbox once a week; sign up for the free newsletter at https://mountainstatespotlight.org/newsletter-sign-up/. Purdue Pharma, the bankrupt drug company that makes the opioid painkiller OxyContin, is paying its attorneys up to $1,050 per hour […]

As a Big Opioid Trial Looms in West Virginia, the Firms Being Sued are Getting Huge COVID-19 Contracts from the Trump Administration

by Eric Eyre on September 30, 2020 Comments are Disabled

This piece was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org. Since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump’s administration has been heaping praise and awarding contracts to prescription drug distributors that are being accused of fueling the opioid crisis. […]

DEA agent: ‘We had no leadership’ in West Virginia amid flood of pain pills

by Eric Eyre on February 22, 2017 Comments are Disabled

During the years drug firms poured millions of highly addictive pain pills into West Virginia amid a rise of overdose deaths, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had a shortage of leadership in the state, according to a DEA official. “We had no leadership in West Virginia. We had none,” said […]