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One Voice, a faith-based community resource center, applauded the U.S. Senate's passage of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2015 (CARA), a bipartisan bill that will help combat the opioid epidemic nationwide. The legislation aims to create grants to aid state and local programs targeted at the epidemic, which took the lives of more than 47,000 Americans in 2014. West Virginia had the highest overdose death rates that year at 35.5 deaths per 100,000. Melonie Terry,... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Senate paused Thursday from its nasty partisan clash over the Supreme Court vacancy and easily approved election-year legislation reinforcing government efforts against heroin and the abuse of opioid painkillers. By an overwhelming 94-1 margin, lawmakers completed a bill that would create grants to bolster state and local programs targeted at a growing, deadly problem. More than 47,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2014 in cities and rural areas alike, a death rate... Read More

MORGANTOWN — U.S. Senators Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., this week announced about $5.9 million in grants for programs aimed at ending homelessness. Three area groups received grants totaling $868,293: Bartlett House received $109,918 for its West Run Permanent Supportive Housing project.North Central West Virginia Community Action, based in Fairmont, received $93,309 for two projects.The WVU Research Corporation received $665,066 for five projects.The grants... Read More

West Virginia and Ohio lawmakers applauded the U.S. Senate's passage Thursday of the bipartisan Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which aims to help communities combat the growing drug epidemic. The bill passed on a 94-1 vote. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, was an original co-sponsor of the bill, with Sens. Shelley Capito, R-W.Va., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., signing on as co-sponsors. "Passage of the bipartisan Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act is a good first step in the national... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) applauded the passage of a bill that aims to combat the drug epidemic nationwide. The U.S. Senate approved the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act with bipartisan support on a 94-1 vote Thursday. The legislation supports long term recovery and works with expanded use and availability of the opiod reversal drug Naloxone. The bill also allows people that are working on prevention and education... Read More

The Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA)  is looking to regulate the conversion of standard cars into professional race cars. "It just seems like every time you turn around there's another battle. It seems like there's a war against us somehow for some reason and this will hurt," said Jay Matics. Matics is a Raleigh county resident and owner of Vigilante Customs. A body shop that specializes in after-market accessories. It's where hobbyist's take their cars to get... Read More

The U.S. Senate passed a measure in overwhelming fashion Thursday to fight the heroin and opioid epidemic. The vote for the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act was 94-1. The bill, strongly supported by West Virginia Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., would provide money to train first responders to treat people who have overdosed, create treatment programs for addicts instead of sending them to prison, and help veterans and pregnant women who are... Read More

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) – Overdoses from heroin, prescription drugs, and opioid pain relievers last year surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of injury-related death in America. That's one of the many reasons why legislators are discussing the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. The problem hits home especially in West Virginia. This bill would help curb doctors from over-prescribing pain medication. It also allows for a prescription to be partially filled.That way,... Read More

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito is one of four federal lawmakers to introduce legislation aimed at reducing the number of unused painkillers that end up on the street by giving patients and physicians more control over prescriptions. The Reducing Unused Medications Act, which is now an amendment to the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, would allow pharmacists to partially fill prescriptions for opioid medications at the request of patients or physicians. “In order to fight the drug... Read More

KENOVA – Members of the Ceredo-Kenova Business Association learned on Monday about bills recently passed into federal law that could help businesses locally. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., was at United Bank in Kenova Monday as the guest speaker at the association's regular meeting. During her speech, she touted the long-term highway bill and Every Child Succeeds, but also blasted President Obama's Clean Power plan, calling it "damaging" to the state of West Virginia and an overreach... Read More

HUNTINGTON — West Virginia lawmakers in Washington say the U.S. Senate is expected to pass a comprehensive bill addressing heroin and opioid addiction across the country. The Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act of 2016 would create an interagency task force to craft best practices for prescribing medications that contain opioids and grant federal officials the authority to make drug policy prevention-driven rather than punishment-focused, including funding for drug courts and long-term... Read More

WHEELING — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is confident of significant bipartisan support in Congress for the proposed Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act being debated on the Senate floor. Capito anticipates the bill will clear the Senate and be sent to the House later this week or next week. She also is hopeful that amendments she is sponsoring will be considered. She said the legislation is receiving bipartisan support because many states, including West Virginia, "are being... Read More

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is confident of significant bipartisan support in Congress for the proposed Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act being debated on the Senate floor. Capito anticipates the bill will clear the Senate and be sent to the House later this week or next week. She also is hopeful that amendments she is sponsoring will be considered. She said the legislation is receiving bipartisan support because many states, including West Virginia, "are being deeply affected by... Read More

MARTINSBURG — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito is expecting broad support for the bipartisan Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which is aimed at helping communities nationally combat the growing drug epidemic that is already all too real in West Virginia. That was part of the message she delivered during a floor speech supporting the initiative, when she noted that "West Virginia has the unfortunate distinction of leading the nation in drug-related overdose deaths more than twice the... Read More

BLUEFIELD — A bill that would help fight the growing drug problem in West Virginia and around the country is being considered in the U.S. Senate. Co-sponsored by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act authorizes the appropriation of $312 million over the 2016-2021 period for various federal programs. It would also authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award as much as $413 million in grants over the 2017 to 2021 period through... Read More

Both of West Virginia's U.S. senators have serious concerns about whether the federal government is doing enough to fight the drug abuse epidemic. Coming as they do from senators who represent the state hurt worst by the crisis, their complaints have special credibility. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., differ in their worries. Manchin's involves the Food and Drug Administration. Capito's focus has been the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Capito and Sen.... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito is supporting a bill in the Senate called the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which aims to combat addiction in a variety of ways. “Across the country, and really in West Virginia we’ve had such problems with heroin overdoes, opioid abuse, addiction; West Virginia has some of the highest rate of overdoses,” Capito said. “We have children being born to addicted mothers at alarming rates.” The... Read More

In a welcomed and necessary show of strength, more than 200 members of Congress have filed an amicus brief in support of West Virginia’s court case against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its existing coal-fired power plant regulations. That’s 170 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and 34 members of the U.S. Senate, who are standing up against the job-killing, anti-coal regulations advocated by the Obama administration. We applaud those 200 members of Congress... Read More

It isn’t easily identifiable. A person with an eating disorder isn’t always waif-like or with a gaunt look to his face, say health officials, who add that the affliction is a burden carried by people from all walks of life. “A lot of times people think that eating disorders are visible,” said Briana McElfish, a predoctoral psychology intern at the West Virginia University Disordered Eating Center of Charleston. “That’s not always true,” she said.... Read More

CHARLESTON — Southern West Virginia’s congressional delegation joined more than 200 other members of Congress in again asking a federal circuit court of block the Environmental Protection Administration’s Clean Power Plan. Sen. Joe Manchin, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and Rep. Evan Jenkins filed a friend of the court brief in support of the 27 states, including West Virginia, seeking the overturn of the CPP. “The EPA acted illegally in moving forward with this job-killing,... Read More