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The Ohio Valley has received nearly $60 million in additional federal funds to help combat the opioid epidemic.Kentucky received $16,431,436, Ohio…
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The Appalachian Regional Commission announced Thursday another $22.8 million in funding to 33 projects aimed at revitalizing economies in places affected…
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Report: Rocket Docket Steering Kentucky Drug Offenders into Treatment Faster and Helping Clear JailsA program born out of Kentucky’s opioid crisis is putting drug offenders into treatment faster and reducing the cost of incarceration.The Rocket Docket…
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Sue Meeks has worked with children for years as a registered nurse.Meeks manages the family navigator program at Ohio University Heritage College of…
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New federal data show the Ohio Valley again led the nation in rates of fatal drug overdoses last year.The data confirm what local officials have reported:…
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Kentucky’s attorney general is suing another pharmaceutical manufacturer for contributing to the state’s opioid crisis. Andy Beshear filed a lawsuit on…
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A year after President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, he signed a bipartisan bill Wednesday to bolster law enforcement…
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When Dr. Rahul Gupta started work as West Virginia’s chief health officer his state was already ground zero for the opioid epidemic, with some of the…
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After decades of addiction to heroin and prescription opioids, Wendy Crites finally made a clean break.“For the first time in my life I just wanted to be…