Marisa Peñaloza is a senior producer on NPR's National Desk. Peñaloza's productions are among the signature pieces heard on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as weekend shows. Her work has covered a wide array of topics — from breaking news to feature stories, as well as investigative reports.
As bad as the opioid epidemic is across the nation, it is even worse here in the Ohio Valley.Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia collectively have a rate of…
The Ohio Valley’s numbers on the opioid crisis are grim, especially so in West Virginia, which has the nation’s highest rate of overdose deaths.But those…
Kentucky's attorney general has filed another lawsuit against a pharmaceutical distributor linked to a pipeline inundating the state with highly addictive…
The leader of the state Senate is making no promises on whether proposals to increase the cigarette tax and create a tax on pain pills will be considered…