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 ...
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 employee. He was referring to medicines such as Suboxone and Vivitrol, often used to wean addicts off drugs such as heroin. “If somebody has a problem, they are certainly not alone. When they realize that, sometimes it takes the shame off of them,” Alban said, adding that’s why group therapy ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
WHEELING — Whether it’s a study of history or criminal justice, two local college professors have input on the reasons behind the growing heroin epidemic locally and across the country. Daniel Weimer, Ph.D., teaches a variety of courses on American and international history at Wheeling Jesuit University. Among his classes are The World on Drugs: 1700 to the Present. By studying the drug epidemics and cultures down through time, Weimer offers insight into history repeating itself and what is different and new about today’s heroin and opiate crisis. “If you look at history ...
