Headline: 20.8 Million Pain Pills Flood Tiny Town in WV Let’s talk about Williamson, West Virginia, the little town in Mingo County that has been featured in the news for the past several years as a sort of starting point for the opioid epidemic. According to sources, 20 million (give or take about 1 million)Continue reading “Williamson, West Virginia and the Opioid Crisis (Fake News Alert!)”
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An Open Letter to Dr. Andrew Kolodny
Update 6/27/18: I am overwhelmed by the positive responses I have received for this letter. I would ask that readers also take a look at all the articles and references cited in this piece, and share those as well. Those references go into much, much more detail and research than I have had space orContinue reading “An Open Letter to Dr. Andrew Kolodny”
Going Home for Christmas to Coal Mining Country
See more “misty mountain” photos from my trip here These communities rely almost solely on the dying coal industry that operates mines in the Appalachia mountains throughout Kentucky, Southern Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Not only do these areas struggle with economic depression, and an aging population, the heroin epidemic has hit these communitiesContinue reading “Going Home for Christmas to Coal Mining Country”
A Rock and a Hard Place: Pain Patients Suffer from Heroin Laws Fallout
See also: An Open Letter to Dr. Kolodny, The Truth About the Opioid Crisis, and Strangulation on Medicine Good, law-abiding people are suffering severely in the fallout from recent state and federal laws. Designed to curb heroin addiction, these laws and prevailing societal views all begin with the false assumption that prescription pain pills likeContinue reading “A Rock and a Hard Place: Pain Patients Suffer from Heroin Laws Fallout”
The Midwest Courier 