This article was originally published by the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Low-income West Virginians received $90 million worth of mental health and substance abuse treatment last year, and nearly $300 million over the last four years, under a law the Trump administration is trying to repeal, according to West Virginia health officials. […]
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A widening gap between the rich and the poor may be at the root of an increase in the suicide rate in the United States, one expert said. Ian Rockett is a retired professor of epidemiology who has studied self injury as a staff member at the Injury Control Research […]
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This story was published by Charleston Gazette-Mail It wasn’t a particular incident that led the bishop of the state’s Episcopal churches to encourage its congregations to stock the overdose-reversing drug naloxone; Rev. W. Michie Klusmeyer just hates what the opioid epidemic is doing to West Virginia. “I hate seeing young […]
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