Drug distributors deny they contributed to opioid epidemic

By Robert King

Published May 8, 2018 4:40pm ET

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Drug distributors accused of flooding millions of small communities with addictive painkillers denied that their companies contributed to the opioid epidemic.

Four of five executives at a Tuesday hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s investigations subcommittee denied they made the epidemic worse. The hearing comes after a yearlong committee investigation found a small West Virginia town received more than 20 million opioid pills from 2008 to 2014.

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