Should America build a wall around West Virginia?

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AND WEST VIRGINIANS DARE TO CRY ABOUT IMMIGRANTS?​

Police posted a pair of pictures on Facebook depicting two people unconscious from what’s believed to be the effects of heroin.

“We feel it necessary to show the other side of this horrible drug,” police said. “We feel we need to be a voice for the children caught up in this horrible mess.”

In the images, which WKYC has decided to censor due to their graphic nature, both adults are limp as a 4-year-old boy sits in the back seat.

“This child can’t speak for himself, but we are hopeful his story can convince another user to think twice about injecting this poison while having a child in their custody,” police continued.

The incident happened when an officer spotted a Ford Explorer with West Virginia plates driving “very erratic weaving back and forth.” Police indicate the vehicle skidded to a stop as a school bus was dropping off children.

“The bus pulled away and the suspect vehicle remained in the roadway” before it slowly drifted to a stop, according to a police report.



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/09/police-share-images-adults-they-say-overdosed-child-car/90138800/

 

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All schools in West Virginia now have the option of stocking up on naloxone, also known as Narcan, the life-saving drug that can bring someone back from an overdose.

The West Virginia Board of Education voted and gave the policy the green light earlier this week.

The drug is only to be administered by registered nurses at the school.

Cabell County Schools have been stocking Narcan since last year. At that time, they needed a special waiver to do so.

WSAZ caught up with Cabell County School officials on Friday. They are glad to hear schools around West Virginia can now have access to the drug.

"We don't want a traumatic situation to happen at a school that we're not prepared to respond to," Cabell County Assistant Superintendent Todd Alexander said.

Alexander said Cabell officials started noticing parents showing up to their school intoxicated. They say that weighed into their decision to stock the drug.

"That's what this day in time is coming to," Huntington High School nurse Misty Cooper said on Friday. "There are quite a few of the students where they are clean, they don't use drugs, but their parents do," Cooper added.

Cooper said she is trained and ready if a student, faculty member, or visitor were to overdose at Huntington High.



http://www.wsaz.com/content/news/West-Virginia-schools-now-allowed-option-to-stock-Narcan-392938271.html

 

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A three-day undercover social-media "chat" operation targeting sexual predators of children resulted in six arrests, including four Berkeley County men, according to West Virginia State Police.

James Cameron Coates, 48, David William Wilt, 50, and Ricky Allan Taylor, 46, all of Martinsburg, were arrested. Also charged were Keith Edward Morris Jr., 23, Valton Dean Francis, 43, and Johnnie William Bateman III, 38, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records.

Each suspect was charged with one felony count of solicitation of a minor via computer, court records said.

Francis also was charged with one felony count of use of obscene material to seduce a minor after allegedly sending a nude image of himself to an undercover officer in the course of the operation, records said.




http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/tri_state/west_virginia/w-va-social-media-sex-sting-nets-six-arrests/article_5d4cde4c-76e0-11e6-baf0-cb3fa10ffaa0.html

 

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An Ohio hospital system sued West Virginia's health agency over its allegedly discriminatory certificate-of-need rules governing the construction and development of ambulatory care centers.

Marietta Area Health Care claimed that West Virginia inappropriately allows in-state hospitals to circumvent a time-consuming application process for opening new ambulatory care centers. Out-of-state hospitals are still required to go through the entire “certificate of need” application process through the West Virginia Health Care Authority, and in-state hospitals can also thwart their plans for the facilities.

“This is a marked disparity in the handling of in-state and out-of-state applications,” Marietta's complaint said.

The Ohio legislature created the certificate of need exemption process this year, giving West Virginia hospitals a quicker path to creating ambulatory care centers. But that disparity violates the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause by impeding interstate business, Marietta said.

It has asked a West Virginia federal court to either force all hospitals to comply with the certificate of need program, or toss the application process altogether.

Marietta also claimed the exemption prevents out-of-state hospitals from challenging in-state hospitals' ambulatory care center applications, but in-state hospitals could still block their out-of-state competitors from building new facilities.

“This amended code is discriminatory on its face and thus invalid if the state cannot articulate a legitimate local purpose that could not be served by other means,” the complaint said.

Marietta operates numerous clinics, physician practices and ambulatory care centers in both Ohio and West Virginia.

This isn't the first time healthcare providers have used a so-called “dormant Commerce Clause” argument to challenge certificate of need programs. In August 2011, the Ninth Circuit ruled that hospitals' interest in engaging in interstate commerce could trump state laws giving in-state businesses preferential treatment.


http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160907/NEWS/160909932