WVU Today An opioid overdose isn’t a death sentence. In fact, estimates indicate that in the United States, only 4% to 18% of opioid overdoses that are treated in a hospital or pre-hospital setting — such as an ambulance or someone’s home — actually kill the patient. But there’s ...
MORGANTOWN — Save a Life Day is coming to more than 70 host locations across 17 West Virginia counties to distribute the necessary tools to reverse opioid overdoses. “We encourage everyone to carry naloxone because you never know when you might be in a situation where someone would ...
At the end of July, three drug distributors and one drugmaker settled with a bipartisan group of states’ attorneys general for $26 billion. Distributors Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen and McKesson would contribute a combined $21 billion over 18 years and drugmaker Johnson and Johnson ...
by Faye Flam The damage from the opioid crisis extends beyond the harms of addiction and overdose. Some doctors say it also hurts people with chronic pain by derailing research intended to help them. The need to help people suffering chronic pain seduced some researchers into ...
Saving Grace is a local support group created to help grandparents, kinship, foster parents and adopted families who are raising grandkids or have adopted children due to the opioid crisis. The group offers support from others who are dealing with similar situations. Families can ...
Those responsible for the scourge of opioid addiction that has torn through communities in Washington and across the nation must be held accountable. Anyone who knowingly contributed to this irresponsible distribution should face consequences, not get a free pass. But that’s exactly ...