Fentanyl

The new group, called Mountaineer Fentanyl Education Task Force, hopes to educate their peers about fentanyl.

On this West Virginia Morning, we hear news updates on legislation addressing the deadly opioid fentanyl, and we learn about the BA.2 variant of COVID-19, which accounts for most new COVID-19 cases in the U.S., but not in West Virginia.

On Thursday, Gov. Jim Justice signed Senate Bill 536 into law, increasing fines and prison time for drug traffickers distributing the deadly opioid fentanyl in West Virginia.

Federal and state stakeholders met in Morgantown Thursday to identify solutions to the state’s substance abuse crisis.

A bill that passed the House of Delegates Wednesday creates new misdemeanor and felony charges for anyone who exposes a government employee to a harmful drug or chemical agent.

A Washington Post investigation finds the Ohio Valley is suffering the most from the surge in overdose deaths due to synthetic opioids, even as deaths…

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A new study found that from 2015 to 2017, the number of fentanyl-related deaths rose sharply while deaths involving prescription opioids began to…

We revisit the story of “Steve,” a young New Hampshire man that we met back in the spring of 2016. In our episode called “The Changing Face of Heroin,” we…

Congressman Evan Jenkins hosted a roundtable in Charleston yesterday focused on the federal response to fentanyl and other dangerous synthetic opioids…