Five drug wholesalers have agreed to a $4.2 million settlement in a lawsuit alleging that they shipped an excessive number...
West Virginia prescription drug abuse News
The number of prescription drugs being dispensed in West Virginia is on pace to drop to its lowest amount in...
Information about pill shipments that prescription drug distributors being sued by the state had sought to keep secret show that...
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey plans to purchase incinerators for the disposal of unwanted and expired prescription medication in...
West Virginia pharmacies are dispensing significantly fewer doses of the state’s most popular prescription painkiller, hydrocodone. The number of prescribed...
West Virginia’s attorney general has accused one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical drug wholesalers of flooding the state with tens...
The West Virginia Hospital Association Board of Trustees has endorsed a set of guidelines to help West Virginia’s hospitals reduce...
The director of West Virginia’s mine safety office says there is a growing substance abuse problem among miners. Director Eugene...
Nearly 2,900 West Virginians have overdosed on prescription painkillers or heroin over the past five years, according to the state...
West Virginia has the highest rate of overdose deaths in the U.S., according to a report released this week, further...