Virginia hospitals are monitoring painkiller prescriptions more closely and taking other steps to curb the opioid epidemic, and the efforts may be paying off: Drug overdoses in Virginia have dropped for the first time in six years. In 2016, the opioid epidemic was...
The Rise of an Epidemic: Opioids, Their Impact on Virginians, and Efforts to Combat the Growing Crisis
Kim grew up on the west end of Richmond, a young girl with big blue eyes living in the nice part of town -- bad things didn’t happen to girls like her, not in the suburbs. By 14, though, she had started experimenting with weed and alcohol. As a freshman at Hermitage...
Friend Overdosing? Too Bad, Say VA Legislators Who Killed Bill Protecting Reported ODs
Legislation protecting Virginians reporting drug overdoses was introduced earlier this month after years of lobbying by a Virginia Commonwealth University student organization, but the bill will have Legislation protecting Virginians reporting drug overdoses was...
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