Sep 28 Health Driving While Recovering: For Some Fighting Addiction, A Roadblock On The Path To Sobriety After decades of addiction to heroin and prescription opioids, Wendy Crites finally made a clean break. “For the first time in my life I just wanted to be off of it,” she said from her home in Ranson, West Virginia. “I hit rock bottom.” Last year the ReSource profiled Crites, a single mother getting by […] By Jeff Young Sep 28 Health Driving While Recovering: For Some Fighting Addiction, A Roadblock On The Path To Sobriety Jeff Young
Jul 27 Health Infection And Inequality: How The Income Gap Fuels Ohio Valley’s Hep A Outbreak Jim Thacker is frustrated. The spokesperson for the Madison County, Kentucky, Health Department said there is a real threat of a Hepatitis A outbreak at the detention center right down the road in Richmond. Built to house about 240 inmates, it holds more than 400. “It’s like a petri dish, they are packed so close […] By Mary Meehan Jul 27 Health Infection And Inequality: How The Income Gap Fuels Ohio Valley’s Hep A Outbreak Mary Meehan
May 18 Energy & Environment Shine A Light: Regional Effort To Aid Puerto Rico Caught In Trump’s Solar Tariffs Far from the ocean and Puerto Rico’s famous beaches, narrow roads wind into mountains not unlike the country roads of our home, West Virginia. After hours of driving we reach a rural community in the island’s center called Tetuan Tres. Like so many places in rural Appalachia, you don’t come here accidentally. We’ve come to […] By Glynis Board and Rebecca Kiger May 18 Energy & Environment Shine A Light: Regional Effort To Aid Puerto Rico Caught In Trump’s Solar Tariffs Glynis Board and Rebecca Kiger
Apr 27 Health Regional Hep A Outbreak Linked To Ohio Valley Addiction Crisis A Hepatitis A outbreak growing in the Louisville area since last summer reached a new peak recently with a travel advisory from Indiana health officials. They told Hoosiers heading to Kentucky to get a Hep A vaccine. Soon, Kentucky’s Acting Commissioner for Public Health Dr. Jeffrey Howard was pushing back. “Let me say that it […] By Mary Meehan Apr 27 Health Regional Hep A Outbreak Linked To Ohio Valley Addiction Crisis Mary Meehan
Apr 10 Health Surgeon General Supports Needle Exchanges To Limit Disease From Opioid Crisis U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams threw his support behind syringe exchange services as an important tool to address the Ohio Valley’s high risk of needle-borne disease associated with the opioid epidemic. Adams visited Florence, in northern Kentucky, for an event to encourage more people to get trained to administer the overdose-reversal drug naloxone. Dressed in […] By Mary Meehan Apr 10 Health Surgeon General Supports Needle Exchanges To Limit Disease From Opioid Crisis Mary Meehan
Feb 28 Health Help On Tap For Troubled Water System In Coal Country A water system in eastern Kentucky that was on the verge of collapse could soon get much needed improvements. Many Martin County, Kentucky, residents were without water for long periods this winter. The crisis drew attention amid a national discussion about infrastructure priorities, and put a spotlight on the sort of water woes that are […] By Benny Becker Feb 28 Health Help On Tap For Troubled Water System In Coal Country Benny Becker
Nov 22 Economy Changing Course: A School Cooperative Aims To Remake Coal Communities Betsy Layne High School serves rural Floyd County in the eastern Kentucky town of Stanville, population 206. Students there produce a video program called “Bobcat Banter” where they usually talk about sports and student life. But early last year “Bobcat Banter” introduced some special guests. “We’re here with Mr. and Mrs. Gates from the Gates […] By Jeff Young , Mary Meehan and Benny Becker Nov 22 Economy Changing Course: A School Cooperative Aims To Remake Coal Communities Jeff Young, Mary Meehan and Benny Becker
Aug 25 Energy & Environment Strip Mining Science: Trump Administration Stops Mining Health Study The Perry County Public Library in Hazard, Kentucky, lies along Black Gold Boulevard — a name that nods to the wealth the coal from these hills has generated. On a recent Tuesday evening, however, the library was the venue for a hearing about the full costs of extracting that coal. A team from the National […] By Glynis Board Aug 25 Energy & Environment Strip Mining Science: Trump Administration Stops Mining Health Study Glynis Board
Aug 10 Health Trump Declares Opioid Crisis Emergency: Ohio Valley Reacts Days after sending mixed signals on his response to the nation’s opioid crisis, President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to declare a national emergency to better address the epidemic. “We’re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort, and a lot of money on the opioid crisis,” the president said, […] By Aaron Payne Aug 10 Health Trump Declares Opioid Crisis Emergency: Ohio Valley Reacts Aaron Payne
Aug 8 Health Trump Ignores Call For Opioid Emergency: What It Means For The Ohio Valley The Trump administration’s top health official backed away from a presidential commission’s proposal to declare a national public health emergency to address the opioid crisis. An emergency declaration could have big implications for the Ohio Valley, a region with some of the country’s highest addiction and overdose rates. The top recommendation from President Trump’s commission […] By Aaron Payne Aug 8 Health Trump Ignores Call For Opioid Emergency: What It Means For The Ohio Valley Aaron Payne