This episode of West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s podcast Inside Appalachia was produced in collaboration with 100 Days in Appalachia and the Ohio Valley ReSource as part of the collaborative reporting project Born Exposed. Read the full series here. This article was originally published by West Virginia Public Broadcasting. This week […]

One-month-old Cayden wakes with a fierce cry and clenched fists as a nurse places her on a metal scale to check her weight. When she was born, the infant dressed in tiny pink socks, flowery leggings and a bright yellow polkadot top weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces and was at […]

Life as empty nesters was on the horizon for Lisa Robbins and her husband Brent. They had raised two children and were enjoying helping them with their two grandchildren. But in 2016, police arrested Lisa’s daughter Mollie.  “She got caught using drugs, shooting up in her vehicle in a convenience […]

Heads turn as a white SUV pulls onto a narrow dead-end street and parks under a line of billboards advertising 24-hour bail bonds. On one side of the street is the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department, its front doors and windows tinted opaque black.  On the other is the county jail, […]

Across the country, the opioid epidemic is pushing thousands of grandparents back into the role of parent as they step in to raise their grandchildren while their own children struggle with addiction, are incarcerated, or have died from a drug overdose.  The number of children living with grandparents, other relatives […]

Students line up single file behind teachers at West Elementary in Athens, Ohio, for the walk downhill from the brick building to board buses or meet up with the person taking them home. Some talk about their day, others run off to the playground and some discuss the latest Pokémon […]