Gov. Glenn Youngkin, First Lady Suzanne Youngkin attend opioid overdose training
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REVIVE! is Virginia’s Opioid Overdose and Naloxone Education (OONE) program, and provides training in the use of Narcan.
Search Results for fentanyl
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Virginia’s First Lady launches campaign for wellbeing of women and girls
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Strengthen the Spirit of Virginia’s Women + girls will broaden Youngkin’s sisterhood and awareness activities.
Fredericksburg man gets 18 years for pushing eight pounds of crystal meth
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A Fredericksburg man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute high-grade methamphetamine.
Big Stone Gap man arrested, charged in 2021 murder of police officer
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Michael Donivan White, 34, was arrested Tuesday and federally charged in relation to the 2021 murder of Big Stone Gap police officer Michael Chandler.
Biden to pardon federal simple marijuana possession convictions; urges states to follow lead
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President Joe Biden has announced he will pardon all federal offenses of simple possession of marijuana.
House approves stopgap budget measure to keep federal government open
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted 230-201, largely along party lines, to approve a stopgap funding measure to keep the federal government open until at least mid-December.
Spanberger pushes for more substance abuse grant funding
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Fatal drug overdose has been the leading cause of death in the Commonwealth since 2013.
Report: COVID-19 exacerbated problems with mental-health system in Blue Ridge Health District
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“With the onset of COVID-19, the already strained mental health system was hit by a perfect storm of personal fear and anxiety, societal and political upheaval, forced isolation, loss of life, and an economic downturn,” according to a Blue Ridge Health District 2022 Mapp2Health report.
Two California men indicted for overdoses of two Virginia teens
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A federal grand jury indicted two California men July 19 in Abingdon, Va. for supplying fentanyl linked to teen overdoses in Wise County, Va.
House passes Summer Barrow Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Act
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The U.S. House voted last week to pass the Summer Barrow Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Act, legislation authored by Seventh District Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger.
