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House Committee Questions Opioid Distributors About Flood Of Pain Pills
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Legislators grilled representatives from five major opioid distributors Tuesday on how painkillers flooded West Virginia under their watch. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing came as part of an investigation… Read More
CDC Outlines Plan To Address Ohio Valley’s Opioids Crisis
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President Donald Trump’s call to implement the death penalty for drug traffickers grabbed headlines Monday. But public health officials within the Trump administration are stressing other elements of the president’s… Read More
Painful Lessons: Using Data On Overdose Deaths To Combat Opioid Crisis
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The Ohio Valley’s numbers on the opioid crisis are grim, especially so in West Virginia, which has the nation’s highest rate of overdose deaths. But those numbers could give health… Read More
Trump Takes Enforcement Approach To Opioid Crisis
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President Donald Trump addressed the opioid crisis affecting the Ohio Valley region in his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. “We must get much tougher on drug dealers… Read More
Trump Renews Opioid Emergency: Democrats Want More Funding For Crisis
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The Trump administration has extended its public health emergency on the opioid crisis. The move came just days before the original declaration signed in October was set to expire. Acting… Read More
Survey Finds Teen Use Of Opioids Declining
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A survey produced by the National Institute on Drug Abuse found a rare bit of good news about the opioid crisis: fewer teenagers reported using opioids outside of medical purposes. The Monitoring the… Read More
DEA Beefs Up Ohio Valley Opioid Enforcement
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Wednesday enhanced federal enforcement targeting opioids in the Ohio Valley region, including a new Drug Enforcement Administration field division in Louisville. At a press conference in Washington,… Read More
Addiction U: Schools Form Research Consortium On Opioid Epidemic
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At a conference last year on the region’s opioid crisis, journalist Sam Quinones presented a call to action to Northern Kentucky University. Quinones is author of the influential book on… Read More
White House Commission Recommends Actions On Opioid Crisis
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Roxanne Schwartz, of Lebanon, New Jersey, told a story to the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis Wednesday that could easily resonate with parents in the Ohio Valley…. Read More
Opioid Emergency: How Trump’s Plan Will — And Won’t — Help The Ohio Valley
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As bad as the opioid epidemic is across the nation, it is even worse here in the Ohio Valley. Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia collectively have a rate of opioid-related… Read More
Trumps Cite Ohio Valley Experience In Opioid Emergency Plan
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President Donald Trump outlined on Thursday his long-awaited plan to address the opioid crisis as a national public health emergency. Part of that plan was based on experiences in the Ohio Valley… Read More
Little Regional Coordination As Trump Unveils Delayed Opioid Emergency Plan
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Many lawmakers from the Ohio Valley region say they’ll be at the White House Thursday as President Donald Trump is expected to unveil a long-awaited emergency declaration to address the… Read More
Opioids On Trial: Can Lawsuits Help Fix The Addiction Crisis?
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When health care and law enforcement officials met recently at a health policy forum in Lexington, Kentucky, to share ideas about the opioid crisis, Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear listed… Read More