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W.Va. Opioid Settlement Funds are Supposed to Reverse Years of Crisis. In Several Counties, They’re Being Used to Pay Regional Jail Bills.
In rural Wyoming County, West Virginia, Ann Reed is the sheriff’s department’s only social worker. Funded through a temporary ...
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W.Va. Counties Set the Rules for Opioid Funds — with No One Watching
For two hours every Thursday and Friday, Randall Brown gathers a handful of people in front of a whiteboard. They sit on a ...
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Politically-Connected W.Va. GameChanger Program Receives Opioid Funds Amid Doubts from Experts
Michelle Allen is in her office in an empty Robert C. Byrd High School. Allen is the career and technical instructor at RCB ...
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The Price of Recovery
As millions in opioid settlement funds reach West Virginia, counties are making high-stakes choices about how to spend it — ...
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‘Not in the Political Appetite’: Despite Decades of Research, W.Va. Counties are not Spending Their Opioid Settlement Millions on Harm Reduction
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 ...
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Fernando Alfonso III, Author at 100 Days in Appalachia
This story was produced in partnership with CNN. David Leone has spent the past seven months trying to stay clean. Now he just wants to stay alive. Until a few weeks ago, Leone, 40, was a resident of ...
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North Carolina County Wanted New Court to Stem Its Opioid Crisis. Then Came Trump’s Cuts.
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on ...