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Other grants awarded by McGraw's office include $10,000 to Charleston Black-Ministerial Alliance for a program warning youth about drug abuse; $75,000 to the Kanawha Valley Fellowship Home for community-based drug treatment and education programs; $100,000 to the Mercer County Commission for a day report center; and a total of $90,000 to various Boys & Girls Clubs throughout the state.
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The $10 Million Question
Four years ago, a settlement was struck in McDowell County Circuit Court between the state of West Virginia and the manufacturer of the painkiller OxyContin, a prescription medication so widely abused throughout Appalachia that it had picked up the nickname "hillbilly heroin."
The company, Purdue Pharma, agreed to pay $10 million for the dismissal of state charges that it had not disclosed the harmful effects of its medication. That agreement marked a new era for the drug manufacturer, which only a year earlier had issued a news release boasting that it had successfully fought off 65 lawsuits about OxyContin."We were the thread that unraveled the sweater," state Chief Deputy Attorney General Fran Hughes said.The West Virginia case demonstrated that a state could be successful in su...See the full content of this document
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