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John,
West Virginia is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Full of wild places and creative, skilled people, it’s no wonder they call it “Almost Heaven.” But a shadow hovers over us.
That shadow is the horror caused by the opioid epidemic that has spiraled out of control over the past eight years.
Thanks to unscrupulous actors, Southern West Virginia was flooded with powerful, addictive painkillers like Oxycontin. Companies poured 780 million drugs into a State in economic distress with struggling communities –that’s over 1700 pain pills for every single person in the state.
There is enough blame to go around–from drug manufacturers to insurance carriers to doctors and more. Multiple systemic failures conspired to cause the opioid crisis in West Virginia. But one of the biggest players was drug giant Cardinal Health. When the prior WV Attorney General Darrell McGraw began to file suit against them and other drug manufacturers, they found just the right candidate to run against him: their very own lobbyist.
That lobbyist was Patrick Morrisey. And he is now your Attorney General. Those drug companies? They have spent over $10 million to keep him in office.
After taking office, Morrisey has settled lawsuits with drug companies for pennies on the dollar of WV’s actual losses – selling out West Virginians who became addicted to drugs and leaving our communities high and dry with bills that we cannot pay and death tolls that we cannot bear. The overdose rate has doubled while Patrick Morrisey has been in office, and yet there have been no adequate consequences for the unscrupulous and immoral actions of legal drug pushers making untold billions off the misery of our people.
With your help, we will win this race and implement an evidence-based approach to beating the addiction crisis. What will do? First, we will continue litigating to cover for our losses. Second, we will protect the critical federal dollars that support our addiction treatment programs–rather than attacking those funds like Morrisey has done. Third, we will use all the tools in our toolbox to recognize “substance use disorder” as the disease that it is. That means we will work through the Human Rights Commission and the Attorney General’s Civil Rights Division to advocate for clean, drug-free people in recovery to get back in the workforce and get back with their families. We will draw on our workforce development programs and rehabilitation services, as well as private sector resources, to ensure success with long-term recovery.
Unlike the current Attorney General, I am actually from West Virginia where my roots go back for many proud generations. I have built a career here by mounting successful, creative legal and legislative strategies delivering millions of dollars in legal judgments and healthcare benefits for thousands of West Virginians. I have spent my career ensuring that our communities receive the benefits that our people have worked so hard to earn. And I know the suffering and misery of my neighbors who are shamefully exploited by drug companies and their hand-picked, out-of-state politicians.
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Stay strong,
Sam
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