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100 Days in Appalachia

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Pineville, Wyoming County, West Virginia. Photo by Aidan Cornue/West Virginia University
The Price of Recovery

W.Va. Opioid Settlement Funds are Supposed to Reverse Years of Crisis. In Several Counties, They’re Being Used to Pay Regional Jail Bills. 

July 1, 2025 by Claudia Di Lima

In rural Wyoming County, West Virginia, Ann Reed is the sheriff’s department’s only social worker.  Funded through a temporary grant from a local mental health center, Reed provides resources and care to individuals who experience substance use disorder on a daily basis.  She assists the […]

Randall Brown teaches his Addiction Behavioral Awareness program at Lauren’s Wish in Morgantown, W.Va. Photo: Sam Nichols/West Virginia University
The Price of Recovery

W.Va. Counties Set the Rules for Opioid Funds — with No One Watching

July 1, 2025 by Hannah Heiskell

For two hours every Thursday and Friday, Randall Brown gathers a handful of people in front of a whiteboard. They sit on a couch or armchairs on either side – the walls filled with colorful drawings while coffee brews in a nearby pot. These are […]

On June 6, 2025, Laura Jones goes through boxes of Easy Touch syringes to be distributed by Milan Puskar Health Right in Morgantown, W.Va., which operates one of only three syringe exchange programs in West Virginia. Photo by Ty McClung/West Virginia University
The Price of Recovery

‘Not in the Political Appetite’: Despite Decades of Research, W.Va. Counties are not Spending Their Opioid Settlement Millions on Harm Reduction 

July 1, 2025 by Ty McClung

On a warm summer day in late May, about 100 people are waiting for their turn to go inside the Neighborhood S.H.O.P., located in the annex of Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church on the West Side of Charleston, West Virginia.  Inside the S.H.O.P. – which stands […]

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