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On this West Virginia Morning, during the COVID-19 pandemic, from 2019 to 2022, the state’s overdose death rate increased by 67 percent. But it may be returning to where we were before that. Emily Rice has the story.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA CDC report says the state’s overdose death rate decreased by more than 3 percent from March 2021 to March 2022. It’s the second largest drop in overdose deaths by state in the country, behind only Virginia.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsMore than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another tragic record in the nation's escalating overdose epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Wednesday.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFederal and state stakeholders met in Morgantown Thursday to identify solutions to the state’s substance abuse crisis.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsHealth officials in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia say the number of overdose deaths continued to rise in 2017. The Ohio Valley ReSource's Aaron Payne…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is targeting opioid abuse in Appalachia by establishing a new field office in Kentucky to oversee a region ravaged by…
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