Overdoses

In 2019, a multi-state, multi-million dollar, study launched to lower overdose deaths around the Ohio Valley. Then, the coronavirus arrived, and overdose fatalities surged. But addiction researchers are renewing their efforts.

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…

A West Virginia city's lawsuit against a drug company has led to a dispute over which is at fault in the opioid epidemic.The Charleston Gazette-Mail…

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has organized another regional meeting with clergy in a faith-based initiative to involve more churches in…

An Ohio man was accused of distributing an elephant sedative to people, which, according to federal prosecutors, resulted in about two dozen overdoses in…

Authorities say the heroin that led 27 people to overdose in a five-hour span in a single West Virginia city had been mixed with the powerful painkiller…

Additional federal dollars are coming to West Virginia to help combat the state’s opioid epidemic. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services'…