Opioid Crisis

Former Charleston Gazette-Mail reporter Eric Eyre won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for his investigation into how drug distributors pumped powerful opioids…

A West Virginia organization called Community Education Group was recently awarded $500,000 to combat the spread of HIV in the state. West Virginia is…

On this episode of Inside Appalachia, we’ll hear several stories about people who are working to help address problems within their own communities. We’ll…

The small, southern West Virginia town of Kermit has had more than its fair share of national headlines regarding its struggle with the opioid crisis. But…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced more than 1.8 billion dollars in funding to states and territories for combating the opioid…

Tonight West Virginia Public Broadcasting is co-sponsoring a free film screening of Recovery Boys, the latest documentary by Academy Award-nominated…

On this West Virginia Morning, detoxing from drugs is a subject more people than ever throughout the Ohio Valley have experience with… Some people are…

A group of people fighting the opioid epidemic in Berkeley County is garnering national attention (The New Yorker, CBS). In the Hope Dealer Project, three…

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced today that efforts are underway to distribute naloxone to emergency first responders…

On this West Virginia Morning, West Virginia chef-journalist Mike Costello appeared on CNN’s Parts Unknown. Costello talks about that experience, plus…