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Opioid crisis drives a grim business in WV: body transport

This report is the result of a collaboration between the Gazette-Mail and HuffPost. By Eric EyreStaff writerBusiness is booming for one somber industry in West Virginia: the transportation of dead bodies. The state's Department of Health and Human Resources paid private contractors $881,620 in fiscal year 2017 to shuttle corpses from one place to another - more than double the expense two years before.

 

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