Aaron Payne

Patients wait for substance abuse treatment.Credit Rebecca Kieger/Ohio Valley ReSourceEdit | RemoveAt a town hall event in Logan, Ohio, Kelly Taulbee…

Dr. Patrice Harris took the oath in June to become the first African-American woman to serve as president of the powerful American Medical Association,…

Addiction specialists, business leaders, law enforcement officials and other community members gathered around tables at Shawnee State University to talk…

New federal data show the Ohio Valley again led the nation in rate of fatal drug overdoses last year. The data confirm what local officials have reported:…

When Dr. Rahul Gupta started work as West Virginia’s chief health officer his state was already ground zero for the opioid epidemic, with some of the…

In a comprehensive new report on the opioid crisis, the U.S. surgeon general writes that stigma remains a major barrier to treatment and urges a more…

New data from the 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health show a rare bright spot amid the opioid crisis. Fewer high schoolers in the region appear to…

In a room at the Letcher County Health Department in Whitesburg, Kentucky, about 20 people are learning how to use naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal…

Health officials in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia say the number of overdose deaths related to the opioid crisis continued to rise in 2017 as state…

United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts fired up a crowd of thousands of union workers in Columbus, Ohio, with a simple chant: “Fix it!”The rally last…