West Virginia MetroNews18d
West Virginia reports another decline in overdose fatalities across the state
New data comparing the first four months of 2023 to the same period in 2024 shows a provisional 34% decrease in overdose ...
Yahoo18d
West Virginia overdose deaths have dropped in 2024, DoHS says
In an update released on Wednesday, the DoHS reported that West Virginia saw a 34% decrease in overdose fatalities across the state in the first four months of 2024 compared to the first four ...
The Marietta Times5d
West Virginians' governor choices stand on opposite sides of the abortion debate
FILE - West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey speaks during ... outsized role in fighting the drug crisis in the ...
The Register-Herald19d
Dope, dollars and despair: Two men vying to be West Virginia’s governor traveled very different roads in the overdose crisis
The difference maker was naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug. The city had been distributing it to the community and among all first responders. In that same week, West Virginia Attorney ...
The Inter-Mountain10d
Candidates focus on state opioid crisis
The first and likely last debate between Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Democratic Huntington Mayor Steve ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel11d
Mountain State Highs and Lows: Morrisey, Williams gubernatorial debate focuses on state opioid crisis
The first and likely last debate between Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Democratic Huntington Mayor Steve ...
WESA14d
Pittsburgh harm reduction experts: stronger overdose reversal drugs aren't better
Overdose reversal drugs could play a major role in continuing a downward trend of fatal opioid overdoses. But some harm ...
Medical Xpress20d
Data show overdose deaths are down nationally, but up in many Western states
Alaska now has the nation's second-highest rate of drug overdose deaths, about 53 per 100,000 population, behind only West Virginia (73 per 100,000). Other Western states that are now in the top ...