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Shepherdstown Christmas Parade 2025

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opioid epidemic

Partnership in Martinsburg Adds Strength to Opioid Fight

July 22, 2018 Tagged With: opioid epidemic, substance use disorder, The Martinsburg Initiative

The Martinsburg Initiative (TMI) is an innovative, multi-dimensional partnership that has developed a model solution to the crisis of Opioid Use Disorder and the general problems of other substance use, misuse, and substance use disorders. Read the Full Story >>

National Organization Arrives in Panhandle to Confront Opioid Epidemic

April 12, 2018 Tagged With: One America, opioid epidemic, substance use disorder

Established after the 2016 presidential election, The One America Movement’s (One America) mission is to build bridges and solve problems by bringing Americans together across racial, religious, political, and geographic divides in order to address pressing social problems like poverty, opioids, racial tension, and more. Read the Full Story >>

Is Legalization the Answer … to the Opioid Crisis?

February 6, 2018 Tagged With: opioid epidemic, substance use disorder

On Thursday, January 4th, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions effectively ended the federal policy of non-interference with marijuana-friendly state laws. Needless to say, this is controversial for a lot of reasons, mainly because it’s a step back in the nation’s ongoing battle against opioid addiction. An interesting nugget the Trump administration might want to take Read the Full Story >>

I Lost My Brother to Mr. Brown

June 19, 2016 Tagged With: opioid epidemic, substance use disorder

 Mike Chalmers is a consulting editor and former editor-in-chief (2016-2020) for The Observer. — If we’re going to truly address the addiction epidemic, we’ve got to be brutally honest about it. I’ll go first. When we took over at the new Observer, we knew we wanted to place ourselves firmly within the emerging conversation surrounding Read the Full Story >>

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