Many residents in the small West Virginia town of Paden City are grappling with the news that the city’s water is contaminated with a chemical commonly used in dry cleaning called Tetrachloroethylene or PCE. Late last month, the city-run water authority sent a notice to residents warning PCE was present […]
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Community-based efforts can make a real impact in the fight against the opioid epidemic and could benefit from additional funding. One question, though, is whether money from court settlements against drug manufacturers and distributors will trickle down to community efforts. For some insight, West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s new magazine Inside […]
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This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource Officials with the Mine Safety and Health Administration met for the first time with miners’ health researchers Wednesday in a new partnership designed to discuss ways to better protect coal miners from the dust that causes black lung disease. In future […]
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States are using federal funding to treat substance abuse disorders medically, provide life-saving medication to combat overdoses and build treatment facilities. But more funding needs to go into getting rural residents to those services, some say. Battling opioids in rural areas is more than just providing naloxone and reducing opioid […]
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Angela Dearinger is justifiably worried about the prevalence of tobacco use in her state and region. Dearinger is Kentucky’s public health commissioner, and one in four adults in central Appalachia reports being a smoker. The national rate is 16.3 percent. In a study released this past spring, researchers from East […]
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The Daily Yonder regularly covers federal programs and policy debates related to persistent poverty and hunger in rural America. From the nation’s largest nutrition program, SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), to school food programs and rural disaster response, one organization we regularly rely on for information and analysis is […]
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