MORGANTOWN -- In October of 2019, former Milan Puskar Health Right Peer Recovery Coach Dani Ludwig approached Morgantown City Council about the placement of sharps containers in and around the city’s downtown. A month later, Health Right Executive Director Laura Jones, backed by former ...
by Wren DownsNewsroom@DominionPost.com To attend his weekly Zoom meetings, one patient at the Center for Hope and Healing addiction treatment facility in Morgantown, drives his ATV four miles down the road and holds his cell phone toward the sky to search for ...
WVU Today To meet West Virginia’s growing demand for mental health and addiction professionals, West Virginia University will launch a new undergraduate major in mental health and addiction studies for the 2021-22 academic year. The program, housed in the College of Education ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com WHEELING — Monongalia County Health Department is one of five cities in the Northern District of West Virginia to observe National Crime Victims’ Rights Week by placing 50 purple flags outside its headquarters to commemorate those who have lost their lives ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Six sober living homes for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder have received state certification. West Virginia Sober Living has recovery homes in Monongalia and Kanawha counties, with a men’s home, a women’s home and a home for women ...
WVU Today Long before COVID-19 entered the picture, West Virginia had been battling two other major public health crises: Opioids and HIV. Dr. Sally Hodder, a leading infectious disease expert at West Virginia University, believes that despite the threat of COVID-19, the opioid ...