The Wood County Prevention Coalition and its member organizations will host two events on the campus of Bowling Green State University this month to raise awareness of the opiate epidemic.

The first event will be held

In 2014, health care providers wrote 480 million opioid prescriptions. Of those, 70% of those pills remain unused and available for abuse. Every day, 2,500 new kids begin abusing opioids. Three out of four people with he

Jennifer Biddinger is the Director of Drug Abuse Outreach Initiatives for Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. In this role, Jennifer leads a team tasked with providing community outreach to address the opioid epidemic.

In this episode of the Wood County Prevention Coalition Podcast, area resident Nate Kehlmeier shares his story of addiciton, recovery and hope.

Kehlmeier spent nearly 6 years addicted to heroin until one incident chan

In this episode of the Wood County Prevention Coalition Podcast, we talk to Lisa Myers, co-chair of the Wood County Suicide Prevention Coalition, and Ann Huss, a member of the Suicide Prevention Coalition, talk about the

On May 2-3, 2016, hosts Milan Karna and Kyle Clark attended Ohio's 2016 Opiate Conference. The focus of the conference was advancing prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery. In this episode, Karna and Clark revi

In this episode, we sit down with Susan Spencer and Michael Fallis, of the Community Learning Centers.

The CLC has before- and after-school programming at 11 sites in Wood County and surrounting counties, offering edu

On April 28, 2016, nine youth from Wood County, along with staff members from the Wood County Prevention Education Program and members of the Wood County Prevention Coalition attended the We are the Majority Youth Rally,

On April 8, 2016, Dr. Bill Ivoska visited the Wood County Prevention Coalition Podcast to talk about the results of the 2016 Wood County ADAMHS Youth Survey.

In this portion, the second of a two-part discussion, we t

On April 8, 2016, Dr. Bill Ivoska visited the Wood County Prevention Coalition Podcast to talk about the results of the 2016 Wood County ADAMHS Youth Survey.

In this portion first of the a two-part discussion, we tal