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National Take Back Day Provides Safe Option For Prescription Drug Disposal
People can drop off medications that are no longer being used at dozens of National Prescription Drug Take Back Day locations across the state.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFloods Present Unique Challenges For Substance Use Recovery
Southern Highlands Community Mental Health clinics in Wyoming and McDowell counties serve between 65 and 80 people per month dispensing suboxone, vivitrol, sublocate and brixol. Before the deadly February 2025 flood, an estimated 10 people at the clinic in Welch, McDowell County, screened positive for substance use at check-ins. Afterward, that number shot up to 20.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsW.Va’s Overdose Death Rate Continues To Fall
Early data shows West Virginia’s overdose death rate is continuing to decline, following national trends.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFourth Annual Save A Life Day Projected To Surpass Records
More states than ever before will distribute opioid reversal medication for Save A Life Day on Sept 26. Save A Life Day began in 2020 as a pilot project in Kanawha...
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National Drug Czar Says Overdose Decreases Positive, But More To Do
Early Center for Disease Control (CDC) data shows a dramatic fall of 12 percent in overdose death rates across the U.S. in the last year. During the same period, West Virginia’s dru...
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSenate Passes Bill To Teach Adolescents Dangers Of Fentanyl
The bill, known as Laken's Law, is named after Morgan Laken, who died from a fentanyl overdose in 2021. It requires students to be taught about fentanyl, heroin, and opioid awareness, prevention and abuse, addiction, community resources, substance abuse among young people, and how to administer opioid reversal agents like Narcan. The instruction will begin in the 2024-2025 school year.
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