Pain from working in the mines, not layoffs, led to opioid addiction, researchers say. The assumption has long been that people turn to drugs when they lose their jobs. In coal mining areas in Appalachia, where the opioid epidemic began, the storyline has been that as mining jobs disappear, opioid […]
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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 […]
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