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6 sober living homes receive state certification

Newsroom@DominionPost.com Six sober living homes for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder have received state certification.  West Virginia Sober Living has recovery homes in Monongalia and Kanawha counties, with a men’s home, a women’s home and a home for women ...

March 28 letters to the editor

To be a destination or to be the doldrums? I personally do not want more people to come live in West Virginia and I hope more of them leave. So, the way to continue population loss is to keep the status quo and tweak it to increase the negative aspects of living here. We could ask ...

Treatment Offers Wave of Hope

WVU Today On the heels of the country’s deadliest year for drug overdoses, the West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute launched a first-in-the-world clinical trial to investigate the use of focused ultrasound technology to treat those with opioid use disorder. The ...

A Year of Living in a Pandemic

Two years before, and you may have thought a movie crew was filming a scene for a sci-fi contagion thriller. Worried people behind the wheel, steering and snaking their cars into the parking lot of medical facility. Workers, outfitted in full protective gear, walking up to administer a ...

Connected epidemics: HIV and opioids

WVU Today Long before COVID-19 entered the picture, West Virginia had been battling two other major public health crises: Opioids and HIV.  Dr. Sally Hodder, a leading infectious disease expert at West Virginia University, believes that despite the threat of COVID-19, the opioid ...