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Ohio Valley ReSource This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit West Virginia’s drug overdose crisis is getting worse. But instead of working on legislation to address root causes and increase access to treatment and overdose reversal medication, West Virginia lawmakers spent the session focused on bills that experts and advocates say will make things worse for some of the most vulnerable West Virginians. “People are hurting and there’s things we could be doing to help them,” said JoAnna Vance, a recovery coach and advocate for the West Virginia Recovery Advocacy Project. “But we spent the majority of our energy this legislative session fighting bad bills.”

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