Health Archives - Ohio Valley ReSource

May 17

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A Growing Recovery: Food Service And Farming Jobs Provide A Path Out Of Addiction

This is the first story in an occasional series exploring the links between addiction recovery and a recovering economy. It’s lunch hour, and Cafe Appalachia is bustling. Located in South Charleston, West Virginia, the former church turned restaurant has a funky, yet calming vibe. Twinkle lights and mismatched dining room sets dot the space. For […]

By Brittany Patterson and Liam Niemeyer

May 17

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A Growing Recovery: Food Service And Farming Jobs Provide A Path Out Of Addiction

By Brittany Patterson and Liam Niemeyer

May 3

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Remembering A Coal Miner Who Stood Up For Those With Black Lung

Robert Bailey started mining coal in southern West Virginia’s McDowell County in the 1970s. By the time he retired from the Patriot Coal Company 36 years later he was already having trouble breathing. By the time I first interviewed Bailey in 2014, his black lung disease had become severe. “I’m in the process of a […]

By Jessica Lilly

May 3

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Remembering A Coal Miner Who Stood Up For Those With Black Lung

Jessica Lilly

Apr 26

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Amid Measles Outbreaks, Debate Grows Over Religious Exemptions From Vaccination

Toni Wilkinson has seven children, three of them under six, and all of them home-schooled. So her house on a Lexington, Kentucky, cul-de-sac is rarely quiet. Just inside the front door are bins filled with shoes, piles of jackets on a long bench. Across the room is the family library, crammed with school books. Crowded […]

By Mary Meehan

Apr 26

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Amid Measles Outbreaks, Debate Grows Over Religious Exemptions From Vaccination

Mary Meehan

Apr 25

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Drug Company Gilead Gives $11M To Halt Hep C Rise In Ohio Valley

Drug maker Gilead Sciences will give $11.3 million to help prevent and treat hepatitis C in Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina. That money is part of a five-year project aimed at a region that’s been hit hard by the viral disease. About 43,000 people in Kentucky have hepatitis C, according to recent […]

By Lisa Gillespie

Apr 25

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Drug Company Gilead Gives $11M To Halt Hep C Rise In Ohio Valley

Lisa Gillespie

Apr 19

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Cannabis Economy: With Medical Marijuana, Ohio’s Meigs County Hopes To Cash In On “Golden” Opportunity

Meigs County, Ohio, has a complicated history with marijuana. “Meigs County Gold” has been grown illegally for years. Local legend has it that was the strain of choice for musicians like the Grateful Dead and Willie Nelson when they toured Ohio. But for Meigs County Commissioner Randy Smith, that isn’t a source of pride. Instead […]

By Aaron Payne

Apr 19

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Cannabis Economy: With Medical Marijuana, Ohio’s Meigs County Hopes To Cash In On “Golden” Opportunity

Aaron Payne

Apr 17

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Federal Opioid Strikeforce Indicts More Than A Dozen Ohio Valley Doctors

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday more than a dozen indictments against doctors in the Ohio Valley on charges relating to the illegal distribution of opioids. These are the first major indictments from the Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force, which started work in December. “The opioid epidemic is the deadliest drug crisis […]

By Aaron Payne

Apr 17

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Federal Opioid Strikeforce Indicts More Than A Dozen Ohio Valley Doctors

Aaron Payne

Apr 12

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CBD Uncertainty: Sales Soar But Science Lags On Hemp Health Effects

Inside the Bluegrass Hemp Oil store in Lexington, Kentucky, the CBD oils and lotions lining the walls have an origin story — a story of a family’s struggle. “We took a huge risk, to be perfectly honest, because we didn’t know. We weren’t trying other people’s CBD products that were out there,” Bluegrass Hemp Oil […]

By Liam Niemeyer

Apr 12

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CBD Uncertainty: Sales Soar But Science Lags On Hemp Health Effects

Liam Niemeyer

Apr 9

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Coal Community Residents Again Ask Congress For Health Study Of Mountaintop Removal

Residents of Appalachian coal communities told a Congressional subcommittee Tuesday that the controversial mining practice known as mountaintop removal should be halted until its health effects are better studied. Late in the Obama administration the National Academy of Sciences launched a study into the health effects for communities near mountaintop removal coal mines. Donna Branham […]

By Jeff Young

Apr 9

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Coal Community Residents Again Ask Congress For Health Study Of Mountaintop Removal

Jeff Young

Apr 3

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ARC Funds Addiction Treatment For Women In Rural Kentucky And Ohio

The Appalachian Regional Commission has awarded more than two million dollars to expand addiction treatment and recovery resources for women in rural regions of the Ohio Valley hit hard by the opioid crisis. Ohio University received $1,100,000 for the Appalachian Recovery Project in Athens County, Ohio. WestCare Kentucky, Inc., received $1,136,000 for the Judi Patton […]

By Aaron Payne

Apr 3

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ARC Funds Addiction Treatment For Women In Rural Kentucky And Ohio

Aaron Payne

Mar 22

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HHS Provides Additional Funding to Expand Addiction Treatment

The Ohio Valley has received nearly $60 million in additional federal funds to help combat the opioid epidemic. Kentucky received $16,431,436, Ohio $29,122,692 and West Virginia $14,630,361. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the funds as a supplement to the first-year State Opioid Response, or SOR, grant awards. “This funding will […]

By Aaron Payne

Mar 22

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HHS Provides Additional Funding to Expand Addiction Treatment

Aaron Payne