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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, not one named in any of these suits. >> no. >> but have you talked about this general issue with her ...

Whether it's my daughter where she works in this industry or not. if that's the catalyst of your business, you better find another direction to go because i'm 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 -- they're all good companies and they're all intended well. but if there's a demand for the product, but how do pharmaceuticals -- how does the fda allow these new products that keep coming onto the market without taking anything off the market? how does the dea, drug enforcement agency, ...

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 to small, what i call mom and pop pharmacies in one town of about 400 people, in kermit, west virgin...

No one is overseeing the doctors, making sure that they're 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 don't care who they are. and we've got to shut them down. it's awful! >> senator, why do you think west virginia has become the epicenter of opioid addiction? >> first of all, we're a heavy-lifting state. we have done heavy jobs. we've done manufacturing. we do the extraction. we've done manufacturing. we have done it all. so people are g...