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An email released Friday in the federal trial pitting Huntington and Cabell County against three drug distributors showed McKesson Corp. employees cheering trends that showed Appalachians were shifting away from

CHARLESTON -- While opioid distributors have argued there is no proof of connection between prescription painkiller use and illicit drug use, an expert in the neurobiology of addiction said, during the second day of a landmark federal trial against those distributors, that people who take prescription painkillers and illicit opioids see the same changes in their brain chemistry. Dr. Corey Waller, an Michigan doctor with expertise in pain and substance use disorder, testified May 4 at the federa...

HUNTINGTON — As attorneys attempt to navigate uncharted waters created by the COVID-19 pandemic, sides met via a video conference Wednesday in an effort to push a Cabell County and Huntington lawsuit against opioid distributors forward. During the hearing, a new trial date was set and motions were heard in which the governments accuse three opioid distributors of helping create and fuel opioid abuse in the area. AmerisourceBergen Corp., McKesson and Cardinal Health — the “Big Thr...

CLARKSBURG – A prominent attorney has filed a federal lawsuit against a regional law firm and four of its attorneys claiming they schemed against him and tricked him as well as damaged his reputation. Scott Segal filed his complaint against Dinsmore & Shohl and attorneys David M. Thomas, Jeremy S. Rogers, Robert Palumbi and John J. Berry in U.S. District Court in Clarksburg. “The complaint speaks for itself,” Steve Ruby, Segal’s attorney for this case, told The West Virginia Record. �...