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Years of struggle prepared residents in Cabell County, West Virginia, to confront the latest wave of the opioid epidemic as mixtures of fentanyl and other drugs claim lives nationwide.-3

From 2006 through 2014, more than 81 million painkiller pills were shipped to this city and surrounding rural Cabell County.

Emergency physician Dr. Gail D’Onofrio has seen the grief and heartache firsthand, she said. Each time the same questions are asked through tears: What else could I have done?

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On a hazy summer afternoon, a silver pickup truck rolled into a parking lot filled with pop-up tents in Charleston’s Kanawha City. As it came to a stop, four people

A version of this story was originally published by 100 Days in Appalachia. A 45-minute drive northwest of Asheville, Hot Springs, North Carolina, is an

CHARLESTON — Brooke Parker has spent the past two years combing riverside homeless encampments, abandoned houses, and less traveled roads to help contain a lingering HIV outbreak that has disproportionately

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Brooke Parker has spent the past two years combing riverside homeless encampments, abandoned houses, and less traveled roads to help contain a lingering HIV outbreak that has

Harm reduction advocates have criticized officials for impeding access to clean syringes for people who use IV drugs.