WV Department of Health and Human Resources The above map shows counties ranked by vulnerability to overdose mortality from all drugs. Dark red indicates the highest vulnerability to overdose deaths while light green indicates the lowest. Data from this map comes from 2017, the last time a ...
Not enough proof harm reduction works This letter is in response to the editorial published March 5. The editor took great liberty in drawing conclusions about my character and opining the virtues of harm reduction programs. However, the only factual basis for the narrative was a singular ...
KINGWOOD — Chickens and the harm reduction letter of support were topics of discussion at the Tuesday evening meeting of the Kingwood Town Council. Beginning in January, the State of West Virginia implemented licenses for harm reduction programs to legally provide syringes. A requirement ...
Last week, Kingwood City Council declined to give Health Right a letter of support to operate a harm reduction and needle exchange program within the town’s limits. At that meeting, Councilman Josh Fields asked, “How does this program make Kingwood a better place to raise a ...
KINGWOOD — City council members tabled a decision about giving a letter of support to Milan Puskar Health Right until their next meeting. The organization asked council to provide the letter for its harm reduction program. Beginning in January, the State of West Virginia implemented ...
New text campaign feeds conspiracies Warning! Do not be fooled by the doublespeak in Secretary of State Mac Warner’s announcement of his office’s new “See Something, Text Something” campaign, using a slogan stolen from the “See Something, Say Something” appropriately used ...