East Tennessee Family: Son Would Benefit from Legal Medical Marijuana
Tennessee Democrats vote to support medical marijuana MARYVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The debate surrounding medical cannabis continues in...
Amid Opioid Epidemic, Campbell County Group Helps Former Inmates Restart Lives
ACKSBORO, Tenn. (WATE) – The opioid epidemic is an ongoing problem across East Tennessee and the issue is hitting Campbell County hard....
WATE 6 On Your Side Wears Pearls, Bowties to Bring Awareness to Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — WATE 6 On Your Side is joining the Metro Drug Coalitionto help bring awareness for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome...
Knoxville Woman Charged in Pill Mill Operation Released
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A judge has granted bond for a Knoxville woman who is accused of being responsible for distributing enough...
Tennessee Medical Cannabis Task Force Hears Pushback, Support
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – The long debate about medical marijuana played out again Thursday on Tennessee’s Capitol Hill as skepticism was...
New Protocols at UT Medical Center for IV Opioid Addicted Patients
KNOXVILLE (WATE) – The University of Tennessee Medical Center is creating several new measures to hopefully stop the opioid epidemic in...
3 Tennessee Counties on CDC Monthly Report on Opioid Prescriptions
The Centers for Disease Control in July released a monthly report, Vital Signs, that determined morphine equivalent milligrams per...
Harwell ‘Open’ to Medical Marijuana Law in Tennessee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The treatment of her sister’s back injury has caused Republican gubernatorial candidate Beth Harwell to...
Harwell ‘Open’ to Medical Marijuana Law in Tennessee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The treatment of her sister’s back injury has caused Republican gubernatorial candidate Beth Harwell to...
Campbell County Program Helps ‘Relatives Raising Relatives’
LAFOLLETTE (WATE) – The opioid epidemic has touched just about every family in one way or another, as well as so many children. In...