Department of Health and Human Resources

A group of state leaders working on a three-year plan to address substance use in West Virginia are traveling the state to share what they’ve come up…

As many American parents struggle with opioid addiction, the number of children put into foster care in the U.S. is steadily increasing. In West Virginia,…

Jim Johnson has been named director of the West Virginia's new Office of Drug Control Policy.Department of Health and Human Resources Secretary Bill…

West Virginia officials say they're in the early stages of developing a plan to implement the state's new medical marijuana law.The state Department of…

State funding to pay for indigent burials in West Virginia has run out five months before the end of the fiscal year, an official for a funeral directors…

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Tuesday that the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is partnering with First Choice…

The Department of Health and Human Resources has begun a distributing naloxone statewide in hopes of preventing opioid overdose deaths and increasing…

Since July 1, the state Bureau for Public Health has been holding public hearings across West Virginia to discuss proposed Source Water Protection…

People who have been affected by cuts to West Virginia's Medicaid Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities waiver program may join a lawsuit against the…

Federal and state health agencies are surveying households in two counties to assess the impact of the recent flooding on communities in southern West…