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The Prison Builder’s Dilemma: Economics and Ethics Clash in Eastern Kentucky
By: Benny Becker | Ohio Valley ReSource
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You are Letcher County, Kentucky. You are rural, mountainous, and in the heart of the central Appalachian coalfields. Your economy is not in good shape. Fox News has called your… Read More
Pot Vs. Pills: Can Marijuana Help Cure The Opiate Crisis?
By: Aaron Payne
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As the opioid epidemic continues to plague the Ohio Valley with addiction and death, the search for safer methods of pain management has become increasingly urgent. Advocates for medical marijuana… Read More
Surgeon General: Ohio Needs More Drug Treatment Facilities
By: Associated Press
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CLEVELAND (AP) – The U.S. surgeon general says more treatment facilities must be opened in Ohio to help opioid addicts overcome a disease that has already killed many Ohioans. Vivek… Read More
Ohio Superintendents Urged to Share Overdose-Fighting Tools
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Top state officials in Ohio are urging school superintendents to make resources for combatting drug abuse, addiction and overdose known in their communities. Letters signed by… Read More
Portman Hopeful on Anti-Drug Legislation
By: Associated Press
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CINCINNATI (AP) – Ohio’s Republican senator says he thinks the nation’s opioid abuse crisis will transcend election-year politics as Congress tries to work out compromise legislation on the problem. Rob… Read More
Huntington Stocks Opiate Overdose Drug in Emergency Vehicles
By: Associated Press
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) – The city of Huntington says medication that can reverse the effect of opiates in case of an overdose is now stocked on all of the city… Read More
Ohio Sheriff Wants to Give Jailed Users Anti-Overdose Drug
By: Associated Press
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – A northwest Ohio sheriff hoping to save more heroin users has floated the idea of giving opioid addicts an anti-overdose drug when they leave jail and… Read More
School Districts to Decide Whether to Accept OverdoseAntidote
By: Associated Press
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – A heroin antidote could be coming to private and public high schools in Kentucky this fall. Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy Executive Director Van Ingram… Read More
States Urge Methadone Clinic Reporting to Databases
By: Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia has joined 32 other states in urging federal health officials to let methadone clinics bypass a patient’s permission in order to submit dispensing data… Read More
West Virginia Governor Signs 2 Substance Abuse Bills
By: Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has approved two bills that address West Virginia’s substance abuse problem. The Charleston Gazette-Mail that the Democrat signed bills Tuesday dealing with… Read More
Fatal Overdoses Caused by Fentanyl Increase in West Virginia
By: Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Fatal overdoses linked to a powerful opioid nearly tripled in West Virginia last year. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that overdoses caused by fentanyl increased from 55… Read More
Kroger to Offer Anti-Overdose Drug Without Prescription
By: Associated Press
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Update 11:21 a.m. CINCINNATI (AP) – Ohio-based grocery chain Kroger Co. is going to make the heroin overdose-reversal drug naloxone available without a prescription in its pharmacies across Ohio and… Read More
Drug Store Chain to Increase Antidote Availability in Ohio
By: Associated Press
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – A drug store chain is set to announce that it will make an antidote for heroin overdoses available at its Ohio stores. The Blade newspaper reports… Read More
Organizers Want to Make Naloxone Drug More Accessible
By: Associated Press
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WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) – Community leaders will come together to discuss ways to make naloxone, a drug that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, more available. The Intelligencer… Read More
Prosecutor Offers Community Treatment, Resource Awareness Day
By: WOUB Staff Writer
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The Athens County Prosecutor’s Office is hoping to help people in the community with drug addictions before they become a court case. Starting Saturday morning, the office’s Community Justice Division… Read More
West Virginia State Police Plans to Carry Life-saving Drug
By: Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia State Police says troopers will begin to carry a life-saving drug that reverses the effects of opioid overdoses The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports there’s no… Read More
Drug Treatment Programs for Inmates Receive State Grants
By: Associated Press
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – More than $3 million has been awarded to provide heroin and prescription drug abuse treatment for Kentucky jail inmates and for an injectable treatment designed to… Read More
Obama Says US Will Tackle Prescription Drug Abuse
By: Associated Press
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Update 4:30 p.m. CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Traveling to a region in the throes of a drug abuse crisis, President Barack Obama promised Wednesday to use his bully pulpit and… Read More
Ohio’s Drug-Dependent Babies Up 750 Percent Since 2004
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A recent report from the Ohio Department of Health shows the state has seen a 750 percent increase in the number of babies diagnosed with neonatal… Read More
Ross Co. To Receive Funding To Fight Drug Epidemic
By: Associated Press
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CHILLICOTHE – Ross County will receive funding to combat the drug epidemic sweeping the area through the Heroin Partnership Program. The Chillicothe Gazette reports the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice… Read More
Coroner: Fatal Overdoses From Heroin Substitute On the Rise
By: Associated Press
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The coroner in Ohio’s largest county is seeing a rise in deaths from the powerful painkiller fentanyl. The Cuyahoga County medical examiner’s office in northeast Ohio says deaths from the… Read More
Sherrod Brown Announces New Legislation to Combat Ohio Drug Overdose Deaths
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced new legislation Tuesday that would help fight the number of drug overdose deaths in Ohio by increasing access to treatment for those struggling with opiate… Read More
Study Shows Alcohol Is Still Region’s Biggest Problem
By: Susan Tebben | The Athens Messenger
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While hard drugs are still very much a part of the regional landscape, the main abuse trend is still alcohol, according to an official study. The Ohio Substance Abuse Monitoring… Read More
Study: Overdose Deaths Rise 60 Percent In Vinton County
By: Joe Higgins | Athens Messenger
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Vinton County experienced a 60 percent increase in unintentional drug overdose deaths when the six-year period that ended in 2012 is compared to the prior six-year period, according to an… Read More
Prisons Department Says It Will Up Dosage Of Execution Drugs
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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The January execution of Dennis McGuire was the first time ever someone was put to death with the sedative midazolam and the opioid hydromorphone. It was the longest on record,… Read More
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