Huntington County

Drugs prescribed by doctors are extremely likely to cause addiction in a high percentage of their patients. At least eighty percent of heroin addicts today were first exposed to prescription drugs. Prescribed medicines are considered a major gateway drug by a large part of the population. Experts believe that the opioid epidemic started in the 1990s when physicians ignored treated chronic pain. Pharmaceutical companies wanted to increase the same of their pain killers, so they had started to…

3. I have been very lucky to be able to volunteer as a mentor for refugee girls for the last three years at International House Fort Wayne. Over that time I have built relationships that are based off of a mutual love and respect for different life experiences. Working with my girls every week, I have come to see that there are gaps in the services that are being provided to our children and families and the knowledge of the staff. In the last year in particular, I have jumped into a volunteer…

obstacles at you to show you how much you can really accomplish. J.D. Vance proved that in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy. Vance walks you through what his life was like growing up surrounded by a violent family. Vance has a family that many kids in Huntington, WV can relate too, me being one of them. I related to this novel in many ways, like Vance, I grew up around drugs, violence and poverty. The feeling Vance has for Jackson, OH, it is the same feeling I have for Branchland, WV. In the part of…

People who live with Huntington’s disease lose some of the abilities that other people have, such as driving, swallowing, and writing. Huntington’s disease can be tracked all the way back to before medieval times. Before it was given the name Huntington, it was called chorea, which is a Greek word meaning dance. The name chorea originated from Paracelsus, an alchemist from the Renaissance Age. With the involuntary…

in Monroeville, Alabama. She grew up with siblings that were much older than her. Her father’s name was Amasa Coleman and he was a lawyer. Harper Lee was a tomboy. Lee grew up having a good education. She went to Monroe County Public High School. She went to Huntington College and then transferred to the Law School of…

Will the United States ever have the ability to create a true American cultural identity where any and all groups of people would perfectly fit in? American culture identity has been a problem in the United States for many centuries. People’s cultural identity has been a problem since the United States of America were established. Like the founding fathers who fought in the Revolutionary War, many others have fought long and deadly battles for the right to preserve their cultural identity. A…

Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia. The river was named after the valley found in Putnam County, WV (Teays Valley). Teays Valley was named after Stephen Teays who was an early settler. A few places I was familiar with that the river ran through was Scioto County and Chillicothe in Ohio and along the Interstate 64 in West Virginia from Charleston toward Huntington. The river during this time was used a drain for the eastern part of the US. It drained the watershed…

nations. Also, more people are losing their job as more people have the opportunity to learn everything on the internet. Scholars divide the globalization into three part. The first part is 1492-1800. in those years world became medium from large. counties try to gather more info on does age. the second part 1800-2000 world get even smaller from the medium to small. companies start to globalizing for markets and labor. and the last part is 2000- present, size small to the size tiny. all the…

“The State Mandates went into effect in May 2015 and requested an overall reduction in water use in Orange County of 23%,” said Karl Seckel, assistant general manager at the Orange County Municipal Water District. “We have been almost exactly on that mark through March 2016.” SMWD provides water and wastewater treatment services to more than 155,000 residents and businesses in Mission Viejo, Rancho…

that people have always felt entitlement to living the dream. With this dream, people are wanting to live lavishly and especially in a location of high desire. Take California for example, in certain areas such as Los Angeles, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, or even Orange County, you can see the high demand of people wanting to live their lives out there. Many people ask why are certain parts of California so extremely expensive where some areas are expensive but manageable. The short and quick…