Press Release
U.S. Attorney To Convene Roundtable Discussion On State's Emerging Heroin Epidemic
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of West Virginia
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – United States Attorney Booth Goodwin is bringing together state legislators and medical, treatment, prevention and law enforcement professionals to discuss the influx of heroin into West Virginia, as well as strategies and next steps in turning back the tide of heroin addiction.
WHAT: Heroin Roundtable Discussion
WHEN: Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 5:30pm
WHERE: Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse, 300 Virginia Street East, Fifth Floor
WHO: U.S. AttorneyBooth Goodwin and panelists including:
WV Delegate Don Perdue
WV Senator Ron Stollings
P. Bradley Hall, MD, Executive Medical Director, WV Medical Professionals Health Program and President, WV Society of Addiction Medicine
Carl “Rolly” Sullivan, MD, Professor and Vice-Chairman, Director of Addictions Programs, WVU School of Medicine, Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry
Allen Mock, MD, WV Chief Medical Examiner
Chief W. H. “Skip” Holbrook, Huntington Police Department
Captain Tim Bledsoe, West Virginia State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigations
Matt Boggs, Project Director, The Healing Place of Huntington
Mike Goff, Administrator, Controlled Substances Monitoring Program, WV Board of Pharmacy
Gordon Merry, Director, Cabell County Emergency Medical Services
Kathy Paxton, Director, Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, Bureau for Behavioral Health and Health Facilities, WV Department of Health and Human Resources
Stefan Maxwell, MD, Director, NICU, CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital
Denzil Hawkinberry II, MD, Community Care of WV
Updated January 7, 2015
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