Jan 28 (Reuters) - A West ... opioid crisis. While most of the cases that went to trial were unsuccessful, the litigation has resulted in more than $50 billion in settlements. The state of West ...

Cabell County’s opioid case is still up for debate. Whether it can proceed now is up to how the WV Supreme Court defines a public nuisance.

As the opioid crisis has escalated dramatically over the past five years, those numbers have surely climbed. West Virginia, at two and a half times the national average, has the highest rate of ...

America’s communities weren’t built to handle the opioid crisis. Across the nation ... One in five babies born in West Virginia’s Cabell County-Huntington Hospital were exposed to controlled ...

It was a “who’s who” of experts on West Virginia’s drug problems, as Senator Shelly Moore Capito hosted an opioid summit. The event included representatives from law enforcement ...

feeding a substance use crisis. The West Virginia First program will divide settlement dollars from opioid manufacturers and distributors, with 24.5% going to cities and counties, 3% going to the ...