Marshall University has teamed up with a leading pharmaceutical company to fight prescription drug abuse in West Virginia.

Marshall President Dan Angel recently teamed up with officials of Purdue Pharma L.P. and The West Virginia Prevention Resource Center (WVPRC), which is operated from the Marshall Graduate College in Charleston, to announce the establishment of a program to fight prescription drug abuse in three southern West Virginia counties.

The pilot project will take place in Mingo, Logan, and Wyoming counties. According to Dr. Wayne Coombs, director of the WVPRC, these three counties were chosen because they have had high amounts of prescription drug abuse in recent history.

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