By Liz Carey for The Daily Yonder. Broadcast version by Danielle Smith for Tennessee News Service for the Public News Service ...

WASHINGTON, July 31-- Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pennsylvania, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release: A congressional subcommittee met with ...

This story is part of our series Asking Appalachia: Coal, Trump and the politics of eastern Kentucky. Find part one here. James Browning calls himself a recovering addict. From the age 13 to 38, ...

The opioid epidemic today has ravaged big cities as well as remote towns and has spared no demographic group. But it has been particularly brutal here in central Appalachia, which has seen the coal ...

On a Saturday evening in June, people of this rural region gathered at the historic Lee Theatre to celebrate the founding of Higher Ground Women’s Recovery Residence. Author Barbara Kingsolver opened ...

The connection between opioid use and mental health is not just a matter of statistics. It is a reality for countless families where the opioid crisis and mental health struggles collide with ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is targeting opioid abuse in Appalachia by establishing a new field office in Kentucky to oversee a region ravaged by overdose deaths. The new ...

For a state hit harder than most, West Virginia could finally be feeling some relief with a massive settlement.

Access is the mother of use,' an expert said. 'The more there is...in the community, the more likely a young person is to use ...