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The DEA keeps a database of where every prescription opioid shipment goes across the country. The full national database has never been public. Until now. washingtonpost.com/investigations…
if you're into the tl;dr, here's a look at the biggest findings we had looking through hundreds of millions of shipments over seven years washingtonpost.com/investigations…
If you'd like to see where the highest concentration of oxycodone and hydrocodone were shipped or who was shipping them, check out our interactive page with this information. wapo.st/DEA-pain-pill-…
And if you'd like to read the companies who are written about in the stories responses to our questions, you can see them all here washingtonpost.com/investigations…
The @washingtonpost has been attempting to acquire this data for years. We've been denied time and again. But we and the folks at HD Media, who publish the Charleston Gazette-Mail, intervened in the largest civil action in U.S. history. And we won.
This story is written by @ScottHigham1, @SariHorwitz and I, but would not have been possible if not for a huge team of folks working tirelessly on deadline. washingtonpost.com/investigations…
I'd like to specifically acknowledge the work of @aboutaaron and @abtran, without whom parsing and analyzing a nearly 380 million-record data set on deadline would have been impossible.
