There are many stigmas around addiction. The most harmful one, though, may be that addiction is a moral failure. That succumbing to the siren’s call of drugs […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Meeting them where they are
WVU Today About 90% of Americans who need treatment for a substance use disorder don’t get it. West Virginia University researchers have developed a program that allows […]
Saving Grace Support Group helps families impacted by the opioid crisis
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 […]
Grant aims to reduce overdose deaths
WVU Today Patients with substance use disorder will be able to better connect with emergency department-initiated treatment programs at participating hospitals throughout the state, thanks to a […]
U.S. Attorney’s Office teams up with law enforcement and other community partners to recognize overdose victims
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 […]
Health Right director sees harm coming from Senate needle exchange bill
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice said early this week that he will likely sign the bill to license and regulate needle exchange programs – SB 334. The […]
House Judiciary tweaks some flaws from needle exchange bill, sends it to full House
MORGANTOWN — House Judiciary on Wednesday took up the ever-morphing bill to license needle exchange programs and offered a rewrite to remove some provisions physicians and pubic […]
