The West Virginia Gazzette Mail has the depressing story of the Southern West Virginia town Willamson, located in Mingo County. According to data, 20.8 million prescription pain medications were shipped into that town over a 10-year span, via two pharmacies located just four blocks apart.

Between 2006 and 2016, drug wholesalers shipped 10.2 million hydrocodone pills and 10.6 million oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy and Hurley Drug in Williamson, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data obtained by the House Committee. Springboro, Ohio-based Miami-Luken sold 6.4 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to Tug Valley Pharmacy from 2008 to 2015, the company disclosed to the panel. That’s more than half of all painkillers shipped to the pharmacy those years. In a single year (2008 to 2009), Miami-Luken’s shipments increased three-fold to the Mingo County town.

The kind of pain being masked with that quantity of drugs is unimaginable. And what happened to those drug companies who have turned pain medications into something out of a special Miami Vice two-part episode?

In February 2016, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey ended a state lawsuit against Miami-Luken after the company agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle allegations that it flooded the state with painkillers. Morrisey, a former lobbyist for a trade group that represents Miami-Luken and other drug distributors, inherited the lawsuit in 2013 after ousting longtime Attorney General Darrell McGraw. H.D. Smith paid the state $3.5 million to settle the same pill-dumping allegations in January 2017.

CBS News profiled Attorney General Patrick Morrisey last year in relation to the many calls for investigation into his seemingly soft-touch attitude in pursuing big drug companies.