Some drug dealers wear white coats.
Precisely— the fact the bulk order pills are shipped by wholesalers to 2 drug stores is highly suspicious. It could be these two stores also have an allied license by WV/DEA fedgov to operate nursing home pharmacy delivery systems— for example the bubble cards of medications prescribed by the physicians who either own or are on medical staff of the private (and/or State) run places, and administered by medication nursing staff with secure lockup. If that is part of the case- then there has to be prescriptions for each patient in those facilities, and not be now dead patients still getting the “pill order” (allowing diversion as it is called). In regular non-narcotic prescription meds for quite a while there was (and may still be) a “grey” market of re-packaged expired medications (in one huge example major heart meds shipped to the old Eastern block and re-packaged with new expiry dates in fake brand labeled bottles and shipped back to US— the chemicals break down and are less or non-effective, and the profit margins on these to rip-off artists were enormous.
The pharmacists had better have air-tight records on their end, and a really good explanation of their customerdemandy. Sort of like Elvis’s highly “helpful” doctor who addicted him to everything, and ultimately (with Elvis’s help) killed him.
But, even that possibility of perhaps 10 or 20, 100-bed facilities with full census 365 days a year— would not account for that volume of opioids (certainly not oxycontin sustained release which is for cancer,terminal). Also would need to look up the number of hospices (which do not, as a rule keep large stocks of prescription meds for long for any short term patient, but would for a certain number of long term cancer patients for pain relief- again an issue as to how many, how long and are the books being padded. These are very large numbers, and there are real physician crooks (ali-babas, red-dot heads and other barely certified foreign origin physicians, whom the professional societies know are dumbos and/or crooks).
It would take time, like the “disability” attorney from WV who was caught in an off-shore caribbean tax haven recently- convicted, and jumped out of country- a real pig. Pretty famous case.
Prescription shopping drug addict patients and their “friends” have a lot to do with this along with willing, cash greedy bent mds, nurse practitioners and even paramedics. It is a racket.
The “meth” epidemic has supplanted the old moonshine networks for more money This is the primary non-prescription addiction being fed, and the nickname for Interstate 81.... all the way down through WV, VA, TN is.... “Highway of Meth”. Truly destructive gomers... white and black and easy to pick out users.