People came from hundreds of miles around to buy the powerful drugs from pharmacies linked to ‘pill mills’ where compliant doctors prescribed indiscriminately
Tug Valley Pharmacy was late to the gold rush, but swiftly made up for lost time.
To the watching investigators, the stone building with a peaked red roof looked more like a rural cabin than a fount for the millions of opioid pills spilling across Appalachia. The giveaway was the drive-thru window, and the cars lined up past the abandoned ghost shops in downtown Williamson, West Virginia.
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