Herring launches new one-stop shop for heroin/opioid education, prevention
Share
Attorney General Mark Herring relaunched HardestHitVA.com as a one-stop shop for materials on Virginia’s heroin and prescription drug abuse crisis.
Search Results for fentanyl
Share
Opioid addiction crisis declared Public Health Emergency in Virginia
Share
State Health Commissioner Marissa J. Levine, MD, MPH, FAAFP, has declared the Virginia opioid addiction crisis a Public Health Emergency.
Drug disposal kits now available throughout Virginia
Share
Beginning today, Virginians with excess or unused prescription opioids or other drugs can pick up a drug deactivation kit at one of dozens of locations.
Herring secures 80,000 drug disposal kits to reduce availability of prescription opioids
Share
Attorney General Mark Herring has secured the donation of 80,000 drug deactivation kits capable of safely disposing of 3.6 million leftover prescription pills in Virginia.
Task force calls for community action to combat addiction epidemic
Share
More people die of drug overdoses than car accidents. There’s a nationwide opioid and heroin epidemic, and it’s in our own backyard.
Bob Goodlatte: Ending the opioid epidemic
Share
Today, the United States is in the throes of an epidemic of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use.
Bob Goodlatte: Criminal justice reform on the move
Share
Have you ever tried to crack open a copy of the federal criminal code? It’s not exactly light reading. The expansion of the federal code to nearly 5,000 criminal statutes, as well as over 300,000 regulations carrying criminal penalties, has resulted in a code that no average American citizen could be expected to read and understand.
Overdose call leads to drug, gun charges in Waynesboro
Share
The Waynesboro Police Department charged a city man with numerous charges when he nearly overdosed after ingesting a Fentanyl patch Monday evening. Eric Michael Shifflett, 24 years old, faces three felonies related to firearms and drug offenses.
Bob Goodlatte: Finding common ground on criminal justice reform
Share
Finding common ground isn’t always the headline story from Washington. But there are a number of issues where both Republicans and Democrats can agree. One of these is the need for reforms to the criminal justice system.
Program aims to reduce opioid related deaths in Virginia
Share
Virginia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services has launched the REVIVE! Pilot Program. REVIVE! strives to reverse opioid overdoses, which are steadily increasing across Virginia.
