In September 2021, members of the Monongalia County Quick Response Team (QRT), along with dozens of volunteers, distributed more than 700 two-dose kits of naloxone for free […]
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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 […]
Capito comments on infrastructure bill, drug overdose deaths, during talk with W.Va. press
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Zoomed with members of the West Virginia press Thursday and much of the conversation focused on the passage and signing […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lauren’s Wish
Mike Cole was gentle as he adjusted the photograph. Tender, even. Like a dad with a newborn. It was a smiling candid of his daughter, Lauren Cole, […]
Save a Life Day Saturday in Mon County
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Sam Shawish used substances and got clean a few times, once for more than two years. But a little over a year ago, on Sept. 4, […]
Researchers want to know how overdoses affect the brain
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 […]
Police charge man for overdose death
MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown Police Department has charged a Maryland man in connection with a 2020 overdose death. Grant Martin Williamson, 39, of Smithburg, Md. is charged […]
Detroit man charged in overdose death
MORGANTOWN — A Detroit man has been charged with giving a person who died by overdose the drugs that killed them. Tremayne I. Johnson was arrested by […]
