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Recovering from an overdose epidemic

Andrew Ayers is busy working on loading and unloading several machines at Guy Chemical — a massive, 30,000-square-foot industrial facility that sits tucked along the border of the tiny unincorporated town of Wills in Somerset County, Pa. People call Ayers one of the lucky ones for surviving ...

State goes after drug makers

CHARLESTON — The first day of what could be a several-week-long trial pitting the state of West Virginia against three opioid manufacturers opened Monday with opening statements. The state claims manufacturers Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc., Teva ...

Guest essay: It takes a village to fight fentanyl

by William Ihlenfeld West Virginia has long struggled with addiction, and the tremendous harm suffered by its people is well documented. But just when we thought that the worst was behind us, a new substance surfaced that’s more dangerous than any drug to come before it. The ...

March 6 letters to the editor

Newspaper critical of Trump but not Biden I read with interest the editorial “Russia wages war on more than Ukraine” (DP-02-26-22) and the obvious lies put forth by the Russians, including their use of Facebook, Twitter and the media to flood the United States with misinformation about ...