McDowell County Leads Opioid Hospitalizations

A study shows that McDowell County led West Virginia in the number of people hospitalized for opioid-related reasons in 2014. The Gazette-Mail reports a ratio of about 750 residents per 100,000 in McDowell County stayed at a hospital because of opioid abuse, including overdoses. 2014 was the most recent year that the data was available and it relies on info released by insurance companies and hospitals.