Drug companies shipped nearly 21 million opioid painkillers to a town with 2,900 people
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If you want to know how the opioid epidemic got so out of control, it’s hard to do better than this statistic: Between 2006 and 2016, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly 21 million opioid painkillers to two pharmacies in Williamson,…