(Editorial) Accidental death by prescription drugs might be the worst ailment Southwest Virginia faces, as the rates of such tragedies have increased by 40 percent in our community in just five years. Curing this ailment requires a multi-angled approach, one that the Healthy Appalachia Institute – of which U.Va. is a partner – adopted as a blueprint a couple years ago: the prescription demands equal doses of education, prevention and appropriate treatment.