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Three Years after Lockdown, What COVID-19 Taught Us about Grief Traditions in Appalachia

COVID-19

byAmanda Held Opelt

March 16, 2023

A member of the Abundant Life Church serves barbeque chicken to an attendee of the dip dinner. About a dozen churches and faith communities partnered with several community organizations to prepare food for the event. Photo: Laura Harbert Allen/100 Days in Appalachia

Food and Faith: Church Dinners Have Served as Places to Build Community for Generations

Communities

byLaura Harbert Allen

March 2, 2023

‘When the Water Goes Down’: Eight Months Later, Eastern Kentucky Is Still Healing

A Changing Climate

bySkylar Baker-Jordan & P.B. Cooley

February 28, 2023

During his about a year-and-a-half stay at Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital in Huntington, Richard Rothermund gained 60 pounds and his health drastically declined. He died at age 40 on Dec. 17, 2021. Photos: Provided

For This W.Va. Family, Legislative Attention on ‘Warehousing’ People with Intellectual Disabilities at State Hospitals Is too Late

Access To Care

February 13, 2023

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When the Billionaire Family Behind the Opioid Crisis Needed PR Help, They Turned to Mike Bloomberg

Bloomberg gave media advice to the Sacklers and recommended his longtime mayoral spokesman to them. The relationship could…

byHannah Dreier

March 2, 2020

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Inside Purdue Pharma’s Media Playbook: How It Planted the Opioid ‘Anti-Story’

OxyContin’s makers delayed the reckoning for their role in the opioid crisis by funding think tanks, placing friendly…

byDavid Armstrong

November 25, 2019

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‘Drug Entrepreneurs’: How Federal Drug Policy Fed Appalachia’s Overdose Crisis

I remember the first time I heard someone I went to high school with died of a drug…

byJerrod A. Laber

November 28, 2018