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The opioid epidemic has long devastated Appalachia. Drug overdose deaths are falling both within West Virginia and the United States, but the epidemic has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the past two decades — including tens of thousands of West Virginians.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA West Virginia doctor has pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge related to pain pills he prescribed.Prosecutors say 64-year-old Dr. John Pellegrini…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWhen health care and law enforcement officials met recently at a health policy forum in Lexington, Kentucky, to share ideas about the opioid crisis,…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsEarlier this week the Charleston Gazette-Mail published an investigative report about “pill mills” in southern West Virginia. These are pharmacies that…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA Circuit Court judge in Boone County has rejected a drug wholesalers' bid to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses drug companies of flooding West Virginia with…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA Clarksburg pain doctor has been sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to distribute prescription pain pills.The Exponent Telegram reports…
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