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Addicted

Examining Roots Of Addiction, Exploring Treatment Options

The lives of a generation are at stake as experts explore appropriate treatment for addiction and examine roots of the current drug epidemic. Dr. Clay Marsh, vice president and executive dean of West Virginia University Health Sciences, sees addiction, drug abuse and overdose as a problem of ...

Counselor: Addiction Treatment Does Work

During the past 20 years working as a counselor, Lee Alban knows one thing — “treatment does work.” “For individuals there certainly is hope when they get treatment. Treatment does work and it can be aided with medicine assisted treatment,” said Alban, a Crossroads Counseling ...

U.S. Attorney Seeks Prison Time For Dealers Whose Drugs Kill

While there is a nationwide move toward sentencing nonviolent, first-time drug offenders to drug court and rehabilitation programs, U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld indicates his office will continue to seek prison time for those found guilty of selling large quantities of drugs that cause ...

New Martinsville Lawyer Committed to Helping Others with recovery

To H. John Rogers, a lawyer hailing from New Martisnville, the war on drugs is over, and drugs have won. “I think the greatest quote of all is ‘the man takes the drink, the drink takes the drink and the drink takes the man,’ and the formula hasn’t changed,” he said of addiction, ...

Paramedics, Cops, Doctors On Front Lines of Drug War

Fire department paramedics have looked death in the eyes more times than they can count. Then life comes rushing back into the addict’s body. The Narcan worked, this time. For first responders who are on the front lines of the drug overdose epidemic in the Ohio Valley, all the training in ...