Mental Health Crisis Response And Mountain Valley Pipeline, Inside Appalachia

This week, people with mental health challenges or substance use disorder often end up in jail. But crisis response teams offer another way. Also, one year after the Mountain Valley Pipeline went into service, people who live directly in the pipeline’s path have received compensation. But not everyone. And, the Sacred Harp songbook gets an update for the first time since the early 1990s.

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WVPB News Liz McCormick, Jun. 29, 2018

'Heroin(e)' Director's New Film Explores Recovery, Community

Academy Award-nominated director Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s newest film “Recovery Boys” is now available on Netflix. The film is a companion to Sheldon’s…

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Health & Science Trey Kay, Apr. 25, 2018

Us & Them - Heroin: N'ganga Dimitri

As the United States works through what the American Medical Association describes as “the worst drug addiction epidemic in its history,” we revisit the story of Dimitri. This former junkie was delivered from a 27-year heroin addiction by a controvers...

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Health & Science Trey Kay, Dec. 07, 2017

Us & Them: His Name's DJ

We revisit the story of “Steve,” a young New Hampshire man that we met back in the spring of 2016. In our episode called “The Changing Face of Heroin,” we…

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WVPB News Nov. 28, 2017

Can West Virginia Shift Its Attitude Toward the Opioid Crisis?

Shawna Hardy grew up in the early 80s “on the hill.” That’s how family referred to her Grandma Helen’s property, a quasi-farm situated atop a steep hill…

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WVPB News Associated Press, Nov. 01, 2017

Child's Halloween Treat was Marijuana Derivative, Not Heroin

Updated on Friday, November 3 at 2:39 p.m.West Virginia police say lab results on a substance found in a child's trick-or-treat bag came back as a…

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WVPB News Dave Mistich, Sep. 12, 2017

Heroin(e): How Three Huntington Women Are Fighting the Opioid Crisis

Updated 1/23/2018: Elaine McMillion Sheldon's film Heroin(e) has been nominated for an Oscar in the short documentary category. Original Story: As most…

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