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REPORT: 1.6 Billion Opioid Doses Poured Into Missouri Over 6 Years

A Senate investigation into prescription opioids in Missouri finds that pharmaceutical wholesalers had different standards for reporting suspicious orders to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Prescription opioids like OxyContin flooded Missouri during the past six years.

Over the last six year, enough opioids were shipped to the state of Missouri to give every resident 260 pills.

The finding by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. It's the latest in a series of investigations by the senator into the role of drugmakers, distributors and

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