by Carol Vaughn | Aug 29, 2022 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Thousands of dollars Accomack is receiving from settlements in cases involving opioid manufacturers and distributors likely will go to improve drug treatment access for Tangier Island residents. Accomack is slated to receive between $126,361 and...
by James Ritch | Oct 28, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Accomack County is set to receive $705,000 over 18 years as part of a nationwide settlement by defendants in ongoing opioid litigation. The Accomack County Board of Supervisors at its Oct. 20 meeting approved a resolution authorizing settlement of...
by James Ritch | Apr 11, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — “The inherently dangerous nature of these (opioid) drugs and the threat to public safety are significant” in Accomack County, Commonwealth’s Attorney Spencer Morgan told a U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary last May. He said the focus of...
by James Ritch | Apr 11, 2019 | Headlines
BREAKING NEWS … AS OF PRESS TIME The Accomack County Circuit Court clerk’s office was notified mid-afternoon Thursday that the opioid case, filed by Accomack County against 53 pharmaceutical companies filed just days earlier, was removed from that court. A...
by James Ritch | Apr 8, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Accomack County is legally fighting the war on drugs. It has taken into account that “the number of Americans who died of drug overdose death in 2017 was roughly equal the number of Americans who died in the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars...
