Full Article by Allen Siegler | Mountain State Spotlight The article “As WV officials tout small reductions in drug overdose deaths, epidemic remains at crisis levels” from Mountain State Spotlight offers a critical examination of West Virginia’s ongoing struggle with Read more…
In late 2021, SOAR was successful in securing grant funding from the Mel Wolfe Foundation for a new pilot project, Unstuck Chuck. Unstuck Chuck is SOAR’s syringe pick-up and disposal crew that is implemented each month with the help and Read more…
While the country is still wrestling with the COVID-19 pandemic, deaths from drug overdoses have been spiking — and are expected to top 100,000 for 2021. On Thursday, the White House released its plan to address the crisis. Amna Nawaz: Read more…
John Oliver discusses why overdoses in the U.S. have been on the rise and what we should, and shouldn’t, be doing to prevent them.
President Biden has made “harm reduction” a central pillar of his plan to fight a record number of drug-related deaths, but a conservative backlash is threatening the effort. by Sheryl Gay Stolberg | New York Times Read the Full Article
In 2019, Cabell County, West Virginia faced a sharp rise in HIV infections among people who inject drugs (PWID). A new report, “Communicating During an HIV Outbreak Among People Who Inject Drugs — West Virginia 2019,” details how public health Read more…
In early 2022, the CDC published a report in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) outlining findings from the HIV outbreak among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Kanawha County, West Virginia, from 2019–2021.Read the full CDC report ➔ Read more…
With homelessness increasing nationwide, John Oliver takes a look at the way we discuss the unhoused, what policy failures are making the problem worse, and how we can help.
1. Declare Public Health Emergency Mayor Goodwin could declare a public health emergency, as requested by over 30 community groups this past June. Charleston and its surrounding county is home to the “most concerning” HIV outbreak in the country (according Read more…
In August 2021, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), alongside the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), presented the final findings from the CDC’s investigation into the Kanawha County Read more…