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Working With Addiction: A Popsicle Plant Helps To Lick The Opioid Crisis
If you’ve ever enjoyed a Budget Saver twin popsicle on a hot summer day, you can thank the employees of the Ziegenfelder frozen treat factory in Wheeling, West Virginia. Floor… Read More
Senate Budget Closes $1B Gap, Adds $6M for Opioid Crisis
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Senate Republicans in Ohio say they have been able to close a projected $1 billion state budget gap while preserving essential services and pumping more money… Read More
Solicitations Issued for Ohio Opioid Grants, Tech Challenge
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio has released its requests for proposals involving scientific breakthroughs that could help solve the U.S. opioid crisis and for the manager of a related technology… Read More
1-Year-Old Ohio Boy Hospitalized After Opioid Overdose
AKRON, Ohio (AP) – Police say a 1-year-old Ohio boy had to be revived with Narcan after he overdosed on opioids. Police say the boy’s 9-year-old brother called 911 Thursday… Read More
Ohio’s Lieutenant Governor Reveals Sons’ Opioid Addictions
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio’s lieutenant governor has revealed her two sons have struggled with opioid addiction. Republican Mary Taylor tells the Dayton Daily her family has been at times… Read More
Group Backs Plan for $20M to Fight Opioid Crisis
Update 2:45 p.m. A state commission in Ohio has agreed to move forward on the governor’s request to invest $20 million in the fight against the state and national opioid… Read More
Ohio PTA Plans Town Hall Meeting On State’s Opioid Epidemic
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – The statewide parent and teacher association focused on the health, safety and education of children plans to hold a town hall meeting on the opioid epidemic…. Read More
Invisible Victims of the Opioid Epidemic
Appalachia is the area that stretches from southern New York to northern Mississippi. However, some of the poorest counties in Appalachia are in Southeastern Ohio and Eastern Kentucky. In 2014,… Read More
Records: Drugmakers Tussle Over Ohio Opioid Bill’s Price Tag
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Public records show lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry pushed Ohio officials to lower their estimates of what it would cost the state if lawmakers approved a… Read More
West Virginia Law Authorizes Opioid Antidotes at Schools
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – A new state law authorizes school nurses and other trained and authorized personnel at West Virginia schools to administer drugs to counteract opioid overdoses by students… Read More
No One Left Behind: Building Supportive Communities Around Children and Families Affected by the Opioid Crisis Town Hall
Join Integrating Professionals for Appalachian Children on April 18, 2017, for our professional conference and community town hall. Learn alongside professionals from all sectors and community members about how to build… Read More
WV Mayor Sues Opioid Companies to Help Addicts
WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — In this once prosperous West Virginia coal town of 1,900 people, residents say it’s not just the decades-long demise of mining that hurt the community —… Read More
‘Daniel’s Law’ Bill Sponsor Takes Opioid Fight Back Home
ATHENS, Ohio — The lead sponsor of a bill aimed at limiting the prescription of opioid painkillers was in Athens and Marietta Friday to promote the bill. Daniel’s Law –House… Read More
Deputies to Carry Opioid Overdose Antidote in Ohio Co, WV
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) – Ohio County sheriff’s deputies are soon going to start carrying antidotes for opioid overdoses. WTRF-TV reports that the Ohio County commission on Tuesday announced their approval… Read More
New DEA Program Targets West Virginia Opioid Traffickers
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will spend $500,000 on a program that aims to curb prescription drug and heroin abuse across the state. DEA special Agent… Read More
Amid Opioid Crisis, Ohio Panel Urges K-12 Drug Education
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio panel says students from kindergarten to 12th grade should be taught about the dangers of drug use, and schools should have to report how… Read More
Addiction Battle On The Ballot: Opioid Epidemic A Potent Campaign Issue
The opioid epidemic is on the agenda for political campaigns from the presidential race down to the local level in the Ohio Valley region. Election Day could shape the response… Read More
West Virginia to Follow CDC Opioid Prescription Guidelines
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – The governor of West Virginia says the state has developed a plan that adheres to federal guidelines for prescribing opioid medications for chronic pain. Local news… Read More
Lazarus Drug: The Medicine Saving Lives Amid The Opioid Crisis
The sound of sirens in Cabell County, West Virginia, has a good chance of indicating an overdose these days. The county’s Emergency Medical Service had responded to 622 overdose calls… Read More
More Ohio Kids In Foster Care Amid Opioid Epidemic
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Child welfare advocates in Ohio say children have become the “invisible victims” of the opioid crisis as more kids are put into foster care and funding… Read More
Pain Care Lobby Gave $3.5M in Ohio as Opioid Deaths Climbed
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As Ohio’s accidental overdose epidemic climbed toward a record high, an army of lobbyists representing makers of prescription painkillers poured more than $3.5 million into Ohio… Read More
Student Contest To Promote Opioid Abuse Awareness
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – The West Virginia Attorney General’s office is sponsoring a contest among schoolchildren to promote awareness of prescription painkiller abuse. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says in a… Read More
Opioid High: Students Face A Different Kind of Test
It’s not just about notebooks and pencil boxes anymore: the opioid epidemic means back-to-school supplies now include things like emergency overdose treatments and drug prevention plans. Many schools in the… Read More
Ohio Hosts Nine-State Regional Summit on Opioid Abuse
CINCINNATI (AP) — The chief justice of Ohio’s supreme court helped bring together experts and officials from nine states in a first regional judicial summit on the opioid drug epidemic,… Read More
W. Va. AG Joining Effort To Tackle High School Opioid Use
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says his office is teaming with several groups to tackle the problem of opioid use in high school athletics. Morrisey’s… Read More
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