WASHINGTON—Prescription-drug wholesalers that for years shipped hundreds of opioid pills per person to small towns in West Virginia mostly denied they were a cause of surging addiction as lawmakers grilled them on Tuesday. Most company executives told a House hearing that their companies’ actions didn’t fan the opioid epidemic in the state. But some acknowledged the industry shipped too many pills and failed to identify major abuses in overprescribing.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 08, 2018 11:01 UTC