Originally reported by WOWK 13 News – Jordan Mead Charleston has over $5 million in opioid settlement funds—and the community is speaking up about where it should go. In a recent WOWK article, reporter Jordan Mead highlights a town hall Read more…
A new naloxone box is now open in the lobby of CAMC General Hospital, offering free access to life-saving Narcan with no questions asked. This makes it the fifth box in Charleston and one of many across West Virginia helping Read more…
by Taylor Sisk with KFF Health News Audio summary posted by Nadia Ramlagan at Public News Service CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak of Read more…
Originally reported by Lori Kersey for the West Virginia Watch More than 30,000 doses of naloxone were distributed across West Virginia during this year’s Save a Life Day on September 26, with volunteers in all 55 counties participating. “We gave Read more…
by Sierra Marling with the Charleston Gazette-Mail On Charleston’s West Side last week, three local drug prevention organizers sat on the porch of a house, bathed in warm late-summer sunlight. Behind them, two rooms were filled with boxes of stickers, Read more…
Full Article by Lori Kersey | West Virginia Watch Save a Life Day, which began in two West Virginia counties in 2020, will reach at least 32 states and 343 counties this year. The event, led by SOAR WV and Read more…
[Note: The $5 price point for making these is based on buying all of the materials for these kits discussed below in bulk with nonprofit sales tax exemptions. We’ve tested this with ordering materials for making 1,600 kits & learning Read more…
Full Story by Caleb Hellerman | WV Public Broadcasting A new story from West Virginia Public Broadcasting revisits Charleston’s HIV outbreak — once called “the most concerning in the United States” — and highlights the urgent, ongoing work to support Read more…
Full Article by Ashley Perham | Charleston Gazette-Mail Charleston’s third free naloxone vending machine has been set up at the Living AIDS Memorial Garden in the East End. The box, located at the northeast corner of Washington Street East and Read more…
Full Article by Ashley Perham | Charleston Gazette-Mail In the year that the free naloxone vending machine has been up at Charleston’s Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 300 boxes — containing 600 doses of the overdose-reversing drug — have been distributed. The Read more…