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 […]
Tag: opioid epidemic
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 […]
Fentanyl symposium brings ‘best and brightest’ to talk opioid crisis
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Prosecutors, sheriffs and police chiefs from throughout West Virginia gathered at Waterfront Place Hotel and Conference Center in Morgantown Thursday for the West Virginia Fentanyl Symposium, which […]
Donors aren’t separate from their deeds
by Benjamin Soskis It was a supreme moment of addition by subtraction. On Dec. 9, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced an agreement with representatives of the Sackler family to […]
Drug crisis worsens in West Virginia
In March 2017, a House of Representatives subcommittee held a hearing on the drug problem in America. The hearing focused on what committee members identified as the “next wave in […]
Why does it matter if Narcan is ‘free’ if it saves someone’s life?
It started out as a picture of a sign — the kind that churches and fast food places have outside, where you place individual letter cards to spell out a […]
Save a Life Day
Monongalia County Health Department About 1,408 doses of naloxone reached the hands of the general public on Saturday during Save a Life Day, an effort to make the medication, which […]
Think it’s a line of cocaine at that party? Think again
by Robin Abcarian LOS ANGELES — Earlier this month, in a house on a Venice canal, three people who reportedly thought they were using cocaine died after apparently ingesting the […]
Guest essay: W.Va.-first approach to fight opioid abuse
by Patrick Morrisey The importance of defeating the opioid crisis has been — and remains — a top priority for the Attorney General’s Office. For years, our office has used […]
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 […]
