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West Virginia recently reached a milestone in the long fight against drugs. Last week, Governor Patrick Morrisey announced ...
BECKLEY, W. Va. –– "Hear the rattle in the holler, that ain't no snake. That's a white coat man with some pills to take." Marcus Oglesby, lead singer of the band Creek Don't Rise, penned these ...
West Virginia will receive an estimated $980 million over the next 17 years from a global settlement, agreed to in federal ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia could receive up to $53 million over the next nine years from a proposed settlement between the Sackler family — the owners of opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma ...
PRINCETON – Standing behind a sign that read “Reducing Overdose Deaths,” Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Wednesday that West Virginia has recorded the nation’s biggest reduction in overdose deaths, but ...
West Virginia will receive an estimated $980 million over the next 17 years from a global settlement of a class action ...
Tucked between news of budget meetings and beauty pageant winners published in The Dickenson Star’s 2017 “Year in Review” is a grim statistic: Dickenson County was first in the state and sixth in the ...
The number of opioid-related deaths with concurrent gastrointestinal complications in the United States more than tripled ...
West Virginia is the hardest-hit of all states when it comes to overdose drug deaths. Must be those damn pills, right? Wrong. Drug overdose deaths from prescription opioids are very low. It can be ...
West Virginia First described ACCORN as a comprehensive system of care that is being rolled out in 10 counties in southern West Virginia, with the ultimate goal of replicating it throughout the state.
The West Virginia First memorandum of understanding created a formula for the distribution of opioid settlement dollars, with 24.5% going to cities and counties, 3% to the Attorney General’s ...
BECKLEY, W. Va. –– "Hear the rattle in the holler, that ain't no snake. That's a white coat man with some pills to take." ...