West Virginia University students are gearing up for spring break — March 9-17 — and the Monongalia County Quick Response Team helped some of them get ready Tuesday by offering free naloxone at the Mountainlair. Naloxone reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. Team members were ...
MORGANTOWN — Two things become apparent listening to Milan Puskar Health Right Executive Director Laura Jones discuss the agency’s needle exchange program. One, she believes wholeheartedly in the concept of harm reduction as a proven strategy to lessen the impacts of injection ...
Members of the Monongalia County Quick Response Team (QRT) and volunteers were kept busy handing out naloxone and fentanyl test strips on Thursday as part of the QRT’s fifth Save a Life Day. As of 4 p.m., the number of naloxone kits distributed surpassed those from last year: 1,104 ...
Saving lives just got a little more accessible. West Virginia Sober Living (WVSL), in collaboration with Monongalia County Health Department’s Quick Response Team (QRT) and Hope Hill Sobering Center, has been approved by the WV Office of Drug Control Policy and West Virginia Board of ...