BY FAITH ABDULLAHFor the Dominion Post West Virginia opioid deaths are currently facing a decline, according to recent reports. Such a decline could be a result of prevention efforts by numerous nonprofit organizations, including the Substance Safety Project. The Substance Safety ...
Jonathan Board, a Marion County resident who has been vice president of external affairs at Mon Health, has now been named director of the foundation established to distribute millions of dollars in opioid litigation money. Board was introduced during a press conference led Thursday by ...
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 message — outside an auto repair shop in Ohio in 2017, then it became a viral meme that still makes its rounds on social media. The sign ...
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 reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, more accessible to members of the community. Volunteers were ...
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 every legal maneuver to stem the flow of unnecessary opioids and ensure that West Virginia’s aggregate ...
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 40 states have agreed to accept $26 billion from Johnson & Johnson and three big drug ...