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West Virginia Sober Living has been allocated ... will be to continue to make progress in the fight against the opioid ...
(WBOY) — The West Virginia First Foundation has ... to organizations throughout West Virginia to address the opioid epidemic. West Virginia First was founded by the state to distribute the ...
Funding from West Virginia First Foundation is already circulating throughout the state to combat the opioid epidemic. At its ...
January 29, 2025 West Virginia top court urged to revive landmark ... the three largest U.S. drug distributors of fueling the opioid epidemic, asking it to rule that opioid sales can give rise ...
The opioid epidemic in the United States is painfully ... those numbers have surely climbed. West Virginia, at two and a half times the national average, has the highest rate of deaths from ...
And right now in West Virginia, our biggest fire is the opioid epidemic. Like they are in many communities across the country, overdoses and overdose deaths are a frequent occurrence in Huntington.
Former L.A. Times reporter Sam Quinones spoke at MTSU on April 7 about the opioid crisis for National Public Health Week.
A new report shows the monetary cost of the opioid epidemic in Virginia was more than $5 billion in 2021. Researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University's Center on Society and Health and the ...
America’s communities weren’t built to handle the opioid crisis ... One in five babies born in West Virginia’s Cabell County-Huntington Hospital were exposed to controlled substances ...
In response to the crisis, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared the opioid epidemic a public ... 28.9%), Ohio (-28.8%), and Virginia (-27.5%) experienced some of the ...
Funding from West Virginia First Foundation is already circulating throughout the state to combat the opioid epidemic. At its March 20 quarterly meeting, the WVFF approved the disbursement of an ...