MORGANTOWN — Difficult, counterintuitive, unsightly. Those were some of the words used by members of the Monongalia County Commission to describe Milan Puskar Health Right’s needle exchange program, known as […]
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Jones: LIGHT Program has distributed 186,580 syringes in eight months
MORGANTOWN — The numbers almost require a double take. In 243 days – from Jan. 1 to Aug. 31 – Milan Puskar Health Right’s LIGHT program distributed 186,580 syringes. They […]
March 13 letters to the editor
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 […]
Harm reduction programs save lives
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, […]
Preston Commission to allow needle exchange program
KINGWOOD — In a 2-1 vote at its regular meeting on Tuesday, the Preston County Commission decided to allow Mylan Puskar Health Right to operate a harm reduction program in […]
Use the opioid settlements to fight the opioid crisis
Makers and sellers of prescription painkillers will soon begin paying out billions of dollars to settle lawsuits that have accused them of fueling the opioid epidemic. Most recently, more than […]
One step forward, 2 steps back
The good news last week was Milan Puskar Health Right finally received the sharps containers it ordered over a year ago; the bad news was a judge dissolved the West […]
Postcast 80 – July 16, 2021
[spreaker type=player resource=”episode_id=45714514″ width=”100%” height=”200px” theme=”light” playlist=”false” playlist-continuous=”false” autoplay=”false” live-autoplay=”false” chapters-image=”true” episode-image-position=”right” hide-logo=”false” hide-likes=”false” hide-comments=”false” hide-sharing=”false” hide-download=”true”] Welcome to another episode of The Postcast, the audio companion to The Dominion […]
Health Right hopeful public sharps containers will be up soon
MORGANTOWN — In October of 2019, former Milan Puskar Health Right Peer Recovery Coach Dani Ludwig approached Morgantown City Council about the placement of sharps containers in and around the […]
How the needle exchange bill diverges from CDC guidance, and what needle exchanges can accomplish
MORGANTOWN — The CDC offers an abundance of resources and guidance for syringe service programs — SSPs, or needle exchanges. Many elements of SB 334, which the governor signed into […]
