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Editorial: WV needs help to battle addiction where it is worst

From The Intelligencer of Wheeling:

Battling the substance abuse epidemic in West Virginia cannot be a matter of bureaucratic formulas and politics as usual in Washington. The federal government needs to do more about drugs in the Mountain State.

To many members of Congress and, no doubt, to most people in the executive branch of government, drug abuse is viewed as a problem.

Here in West Virginia, it is a crisis.

Our state continues to have the highest drug overdose death rate in the nation, by far. Every indication is that once statistics from last year are tabulated, they will reveal more than 1,000 West Virginians overdosed themselves to death last year.

Such has been the depth and length of our experience with opioids and other abused drugs that we in the Mountain State have plenty of ideas about how to battle the crisis. We are doing what we can, but our resources simply are not up to the task.

We need help, and it will have to come from Washington. …

Read the entire editorial at http://www.theintelligencer.net/opinion/editorials/2018/02/battle-addiction-where-it-is-worst/

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