West Virginia officials today announced a further reduction in overdose fatalities across the state. New data comparing the first four months of 2023 to the same period in 2024 shows a provisional ...

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 ...

In June, West was revived after a medical emergency involving a suspected opioid overdose during an arrest in Virginia. He ...

The first and likely last debate between Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Democratic Huntington Mayor Steve ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Huntington Mayor Steve Williams have played an outsized role in fighting the drug crisis in the state with the highest rate of opioid overdose deaths in ...

West Virginia, for instance, had a 15% decrease in the CDC’s latest report, while Ohio experienced a 22% decline, figures ...

Nearly $1.2 million in funding is headed to the West Virginia Veterans Home after Gov. Jim Justice signed House Bill 203 into law. It’s just a couple of week before high school football playoffs ...

More than 30,000 doses of naloxone were distributed in West Virginia during this year’s Save a Life Day, organizers say. Volunteers in all 55 counties gave out 15,269 kits, totalling 30,539 ...

The federal government’s push to make Medicaid funding more flexible for drug addiction treatment in the last nine years has ...

Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Huntington Mayor Steve Williams speak about an agreement between West Virginia counties ...