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Whitley County Fiscal Court suing wholesale drug distributors over prescription drug problem

By: Mark White

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Between 2013 and the middle of 2017, more than 21 million doses of prescription opioids, including hydrocodone, oxycodone, tramadol and oxymorphone, were dispensed in Whitley County, which has a population of about 36,000 people.

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