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With common sense 392 -- eve person, man woman and child needed 23,000 pills a year of hydro codone. there is no way. it was a pill mill. we had doctors that went to jail. you had a clinic that was closed for corruption. you had a pharmacist who said on record, testified, was making $500,000 a month, a month. >> a pharmacist? >> a pharmacist and his pharmacy testified, jake, he was making as much as $500,000 a month. >> wow. i have to ask, sir, your daughter is ceo of a pharmaceutical company, n...

Whether its my daughter where she works in this industry or not. if thats the catalyst of your business, you better find another direction to go because im going to do everything i can to stop the hydro codone products into the market. i have said this. how can the fda keep bringing more -- allowing these -- theyre all good companies and theyre all intended well. but if theres a demand for the product, but how do pharmaceuticals -- how does the fda allow these new products that keep coming onto ...

Confidential drug shipping sales record from the d.e.a. what does it show? >> what it showed was that, between 2007 and 2012, the drug wholesalers shipped 780 million pain pills into west virginia. those were of two particular kinds. oxycodone and hydro codone. that translates into about 430 pain pills of those particular kinds over the six years. and at the same time one of the examples that we sort of cited in the article was what we were seeing is there was a lot of shipments that were going ...

No one is overseeing the doctors, making sure that theyre competent enough and educated well enough, understanding the pearls rils o overprescribing. most of the states where your pharmaceutical boards basically should be looking at these rogue pharmacies. i dont care who they are. and weve got to shut them down. its awful! >> senator, why do you think west virginia has become the epicenter of opioid addiction? >> first of all, were a heavy-lifting state. we have done heavy jobs. weve done manuf...