At the end of 2023, long-awaited news arrived in West Virginia and across the United States: overdose deaths were dropping.

For those who have been following the state’s opioid epidemic over the years, it probably came as no surprise more than half ...

As a landmark federal opioid trial nears completion, West Virginia communities are demanding $2.5 billion in compensation. Drug firms say they acted responsibly in shipping millions of pills.

America has an opioid epidemic, and West Virginia is ground zero. Opioid overdoses kill 10 people in 12 days in Sacramento area New guidelines aim to reduce epidemic of opioid painkiller abuse ...

West Virginia spent $24 million of the settlements on legal fees to private lawyers and more than $20 million on drug treatment facilities. All the while, the state’s child welfare crisis mounted.

Washington, D.C., and West Virginia have felt the biggest economic burden of the opioid epidemic, according to an analysis from the right-leaning think tank American Enterprise Institute. Federal ...

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, West Virginia is the state with the highest rate of opioid overdoses with 41.5 overdose deaths per 100,000 in 2015.

Lou Ortenzio was a trusted West Virginia doctor who got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Local governments in West Virginia will start seeing opioid settlement money by the year's end, the board in charge of distributing the lion’s share of around $1 billion in ...

A West Virginia city and county on Tuesday urged the state's top court to revive their $2.5 billion lawsuit accusing the three largest U.S. drug distributors of fueling the opioid epidemic, asking ...

A West Virginia city and county urged a federal appeals court on Thursday to revive their $2.5 billion lawsuit accusing the nation's three largest drug distributors of causing an opioid epidemic ...

Congressional investigators found that, between 2007 and 2012, distributors sent more than 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone into West Virginia, which roughly equals 433 pills for every man ...