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$8.8 billion. That’s what a new study estimates the opioid epidemic is costing the West Virginia economy every year.
That’s 12 percent of the state’s GDP, and more than any other state.
On this week’s Front Porch podcast, we debate the opportunity cost of opioid addiction for our economy – and how we can get out of this mess.
The Front Porch is where we debate the tough issues facing Appalachia like you and your friends do, on your front porch.
Hosts are Scott Finn, grand poo-bah at West Virginia Public Broadcasting, joined by liberal columnist Rick Wilson of the American Friends Service Committee and Garrett Ballengee of the free-market Cardinal Institute.
Support from the The Front Porch comes from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Charleston Gazette-Mail.
Tim Armstead, former Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court of Appeals who also served in the House of Delegates, died Tuesday.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWyoming County is one of the state’s most rural. It’s home to about 20,000 residents, but no hospital and zero certified treatment beds, according to the West Virginia Office of Drug Control Policy. As the nation’s opioid overdose epidemic raged, Wyoming County had a prescription overdose death rate of 54.6 per 100,000 people from 1999 to 2014 — the highest in the nation.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, we learn how opioid settlement funds are getting distributed, plus discuss new ways communities are responding to mental health crises.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsAt a board of directors meeting Monday, the West Virginia First Foundation provided updates on grant funding distribution to community groups that address addiction.
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