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Years of struggle prepared residents in Cabell County, West Virginia, to confront the latest wave of the opioid epidemic as mixtures of fentanyl and other drugs claim lives nationwide.-3
From 2006 through 2014, more than 81 million painkiller pills were shipped to this city and surrounding rural Cabell County.
Emergency physician Dr. Gail D’Onofrio has seen the grief and heartache firsthand, she said. Each time the same questions are asked through tears: What else could I have done?
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