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>> according to an investigation by the charleston gazette mail, drug wholesalers shipped 780 million oxycodone and hydrocodone pills to west virginia between 2007 and 2012. during that period, over 1700 west virginians fatally overdosed on the same two drugs. under west virginia law, distributors are legally required to report pharmacy orders that seem suspicious. >> the quantities of the opioids were increasing dramatically. they were shipped from the wholesalers to the pharmacies. that should have sent signals to the distributors. >> west virginia sued the distributors for failing to raise ...

>> no state has lost more of its people to drug overdoses than west virginia. law enforcement has cracked down on pharmacies around the state, including the one in kermit that received nine million pills in two years. its owner was fined and sent to prison. but in west virginia, until recently, the distributors that supplied those pharmacies with millions of painkillers have largely escaped consequence. >> every drug they distribute to is to a licensed pharmacy and every prescription the pharmacy fills is from a license doctored so they say hold on a minute, we're just the middleman. >> accord...

Crimes he reportedly committed as a teenager during arab spring protests. our becky anderson explains the case of ali alma miles an hour. >> friends and family describe this man as an optimistic and outgoing young man who loves photography, movies, cars and motorcycles. today he sits in a saudi prison condemned to death for the crimes he allegedly committed as a teenager. he was arrested in 2012. during pro-democracy protests inspired by the arab spring when he was just 17. convicted of charges, including belonging to a terror cell, attacking police with molotov kong tai cocktails. now, he is ...

History as the nation's first african-american woman to serve as attorney general. she'll be sworn in later this morning by vice president joe biden. lynch was confirmed last week by the full senate more than five months after president obama nominated her. nearly three years after the rampage the death penalty trial for the man police say is behind the aurora movie theater massacre begins. james holmes is accused of killing 12 people back in july of 2012. during a midnight screening of "the dark knight rises." holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. he faces the death penalty. re...

Anxiety. 1 in 17 lives with a serious mental disorder, and there is a human cost and a financial one. $300 billion a year. that's the government's estimate for the direct and indirect costs associated with serious mental illness. the national alliance on mental health says the cost of untreated mental illness is more than $100 billion a year. yet cash-strapped states are cutting mental health spending. they're slashing more than $4 billion from 2009 to 12 -- 2012. during that time the use jumped 10%. we again find ourselves asking why. here's another question. is failing to better care for men...