West Virginia University College of Law professor Valarie Blake recently published new scholarship on the opioid crisis and health reform in the Journal of Law in Society. Professor Blake's article is titled "The Opioid Crisis: Lessons for Health Reform" and appears in the summer 2021 issue of volume 21.
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West Virginia College of Law professors Patrick McGinley and Suzanne Weise were recently interviewed by Greg McNeil on Cover2 Resources Podcast. The podcast is an interview series on addiction and addiction education.
In Episode 251,The Data Big Pharma Doesn't Want You to Know, Part 1, Professors McGinley and Weise discuss their role in the fight against the opioid epidemic and the release of DEA data on American opioid sales.
West Virginia University law professor Valarie Blake recently published new scholarship in the Utah Law Review. The article, titled "Seeking Insurance Parity During the Opioid Crisis" appears in issue 4 of the 2019 volume of the journal.
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West Virginia University College of Law professor Jennifer Oliva was recently interviewed by Nicholas Terry on This Week in Health Law Podcast. The podcast is a weekly interview series examining the latest in health law and policy. In episode 157 of the podcast, Professor Oliva and Professor Leo Beletsky of Northeastern University School of Law discuss the opioid crisis.
The episode is live now. You may subscribe at Apple Podcasts , listen at Stitcher Radio, Spotify, Tunein or Podbean, or wherever else you listen to podcasts.
West Virginia University College of Law professor Jennifer Oliva participated in a panel discussion at Harvard Law on April 1, 2019. Professor Oliva was an invited panlist and organizer for the event titled "Public Health Approaches to the Opioid Crisis: Overcoming Obstacles to Community-Driven Solutions" . The panel discussed "community-driven, evidence-based public health strategies aimed at reducing overdose deaths in hard-to-reach populations in Massachusetts, including fishing families, veterans, and individuals who are incarcerated."
Professor Oliva was joined on the panel by Stephen Wood of Harvard Medical School and J.J. Bartlet, President of Fishing Partnership Support Servicers. The panel was moderated by Carmel Shacher, Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.
