Federal official addresses harm reduction in West Virginia during virtual symposium By
March 17, 2021 - 10:59 am
CHARLESTON, W.Va. “Unfortunate” was how the acting assistant secretary for mental health and substance use in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, SAMHSA, described attempts in West Virginia to regulate harm reduction programs.
“Someone can’t get into recovery if they’re dead,” said Tom Coderre during his closing comments at Wednesday’s virtual and inaugural Reducing Risk in Higher Education Symposium.
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“We need to meet people where they are. We need to give them the help that they need and we need to look at those things as important interventions to help connect people to treatment.”
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WHEELING Wheeling City Council members had mixed reactions to backlash from three local institutions of higher learning, which this week jointly and publicly opposed the city’s efforts to bring Bluefield State College to Wheeling.
Some council members on Thursday indicated that, moving forward, they would reconsider their support of the effort to bring the southern West Virginia college to Wheeling, a project initiated earlier this year through a memorandum of understanding between the city and Bluefield State. Other council members and city leaders indicated they will continue supporting the move, another part of the ongoing effort to fill vacant space at the city-owned former Ohio Valley Medical Center.
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Photo by Eric Ayres â The Education and Administration Building on the former Ohio Valley Medical Center campus is being targeted as a potential site for a future Engineering and Manufacturing Center to train and educate engineering students from Bluefield State College.
WHEELING Wheeling City Council members had mixed reactions to backlash from three local institutions of higher learning, which this week jointly and publicly opposed the city’s efforts to bring Bluefield State College to Wheeling.
Some council members on Thursday indicated that, moving forward, they would reconsider their support of the effort to bring the southern West Virginia college to Wheeling, a project initiated earlier this year through a memorandum of understanding between the city and Bluefield State. Other council members and city leaders indicated they will continue supporting the move, another part of the ongoing effort to fill vacant space at the city-owned former Ohio Valley M
West Virginia high school seniors on their way to college and looking for financial help now have more time to apply for the Promise Scholarship. The West Vir