Submitted by Stewart Blair on October 10, 2007 - 3:20pm Kentucky is suing the pharmaceutical company
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A great radio program, produced by a Appalshop staff/youth trainer, aired this morning on NPR to several million people. Below is the link.
Kentucky is suing the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma for medical costs incurred as a result of addictions to the painkiller Oxycontin. Commentator Natasha Watts, who grew up in Blackey, Ky., tells how the town has been changed by prescription painkillers.
Listen to the NPR Story
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15143695
Learn more about the Appalachian Media Insititute and Natasha Watts.
http://www.appalshop.org/ami/issues.htm
