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Old 04-11-2012, 07:04 AM
 
Location: Morgantown, WV
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KERMIT, W.Va. — It takes less than a minute to drive past Kermit, five to tour the place entirely. An old coal mining town with barely 300 residents and one blinking light between the train tracks, Kermit has no supermarket, no clothing store, no main drag. Main Street is really a side street with rows of cottages, its biggest building, the Kermit community center, empty and boarded.

Yet in this tiny town, the Kermit Sav-Rite Pharmacy used to be as busy as a New York deli. Six employees worked the counter, lines at the drive-through window snaked around the square cinder-block building, and the parking lot was full day and night.

Of course, everyone in Kermit — just about everyone in the wooded hollows of Mingo County — knew the Sav-Rite was a pill mill. It handed out Xanax, Lortabs, Vicodin — all manner of the prescription painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs that are crippling Appalachia like a rogue disease — to anyone with an excuse. Kermit, which sits in the poorest, most remote corner of southwest West Virginia at the Kentucky border, was drawing pill addicts from all over the Eastern seaboard. People were throwing pill parties in the parking lot. Trading pills, buying, selling, injecting, snorting, the works.

America's pill-popping capital - Drugs - Salon.com
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Old 04-11-2012, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Inwood
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All regions have a drug problem, this happens to be ours. The problem comes down to jobs, if you don't have the opportunity to work your gonna find trouble. We just went from moonshinin to pillin, never heard that term.
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Old 04-12-2012, 03:22 PM
 
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All regions have a drug problem, this happens to be ours. The problem comes down to jobs, if you don't have the opportunity to work your gonna find trouble. We just went from moonshinin to pillin, never heard that term.
But per capita, WV, and especially SW WV, have a significantly worse problem than most other regions in the country.
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Old 04-16-2012, 01:26 AM
 
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I wonder if Meth is a problem in southern WV? Kentucky had over 1000+ meth incidents in 2011.
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Old 04-16-2012, 09:29 AM
 
Location: West Virginia
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Sounds like a town made up of Disabled people... Maybe I should move there add my Pain Rx to the list LOL
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Old 04-16-2012, 03:07 PM
 
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I wonder if Meth is a problem in southern WV? Kentucky had over 1000+ meth incidents in 2011.

Meth is growing, especially in those poor SW WV counties
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Old 04-16-2012, 03:16 PM
 
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Sounds like a town made up of Disabled people... Maybe I should move there add my Pain Rx to the list LOL
Im sure you would fit right in.
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