Friday’s Morgantown High vs. Bridgeport football game in Morgantown will be the attorney general’s featured gridiron matchup this week. Patrick Morrisey’s office announced this game would be the Opioid Abuse Prevention Game of the Week. Throughout each week, the initiative engages ...
A nationally certified school psychologist is joining the GameChanger team. Kim Legg will serve as director of prevention for the program, designed to blot the stain of substance abuse in West Virginia, starting with the state’s school systems. Legg is also a psychologist in Cabell ...
MORGANTOWN – WVU has received a $1 million federal grant to continue its Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP), to bring opioid prevention, treatment and recovery resources to 10 rural counties. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito jointly announced the grant Wednesday, ...
CHARLESTON — Three large opioid distributors will pay dozens of West Virginia counties, cities and towns a total of $400 million for their roles in the opioid epidemic in a settlement announced Monday. AmeriSource Bergen, McKesson and Cardinal Health admit no guilt in the settlement with ...
by Dan Rodricks Forty-eight-year-old Thamar Smith of Hagerstown, Md., pleaded guilty to federal drug charges last week, the latest in a long line of American men who have contributed to the spread of heroin and fentanyl during an epidemic of opioid abuse that represents the tragic ...
PITTSBURGH — When the Hampton Battery was dedicated here in 1871 to a young Civil War soldier who lost his life protecting the Union at Chancellorsville, Va., the granite monument was a point of pride for residents of this neighborhood. They would stroll along the trails of the lush park ...