MORGANTOWN – Dr. Rahul Gupta returned to West Virginia on Thursday for a series of events addressing the state's and the nation's overdose epidemic. He came to WVU to join with various leaders in a roundtable discussion and later toured the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institutes to learn ...
by Robin Abcarian It’s not clear who coined the term “California sober.” Or even, really, exactly what it means. In 2019, the journalist Michelle Lhooq wrote in Vice that she’d given up most recreational drugs except pot and psychedelics and considered herself “Cali ...
What’s behind U.S.’s lower life expectancy? by Sally Pipes Progressives like to point out that Americans pay more for health care yet have poorer outcomes than people in countries of similar wealth. New life expectancy data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
There are many stigmas around addiction. The most harmful one, though, may be that addiction is a moral failure. That succumbing to the siren’s call of drugs or alcohol is a testament to one’s character. That being an addict makes you a bad person. But people with substance use ...
Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is always so proud to show off his pitiful little opioid settlements, like a little kid showing off his lunchroom trade but who doesn’t realize he got the worse end of the deal. His latest “victory” is a $26 million settlement with Endo Health ...
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s choice of lawsuits tends to leave us scratching our heads. Like supporting lawsuits to overturn the 2020 election results in swing states only, or defending rules that discriminate against transgender teens, or trying to strip thousands ...