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A program that helps Ohio families struggling with addiction is expanding. The Ohio START Program was launched in 2017 to tackle the rising number of…
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Whitehall police have made an arrest after three people fatally overdosed on opioids at a Powell Avenue home earlier this week. Police say 37-year-old…
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The Franklin County Coroner's office is reporting another spike in drug overdose deaths. Eight people died of overdoses during a 24-hour period that ended…
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Grandview Heights police have boarded up a property on Broadview Avenue that was the scene of a drug overdose death and the subject of nearly two dozen…
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As the courts consider various lawsuits against drugmakers, researchers estimate what opioid addiction is costing our economy and what it would take to end the crisis.
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The state plans to increase payments to the approved caregiver relatives of children taken from their parents, even when the relatives aren't licensed.…
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The nation's three largest drug distributors and a drugmaker have reached a tentative deal to settle a lawsuit related to the nation's opioid crisis. The…
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Ohio’s attorney general says his office is disappointed in a reported settlement with five drugmakers and distributors in advance of a huge opioid trial -…
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A new study estimates that the opioid epidemic has cost the U.S. economy about $631 billion because of health care costs and the unrealized lifetime earnings of people who died from overdoses.
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The largest-ever federal action concerning the U.S. opioid crisis has only gotten more complicated amid a slew of recent settlements. So here's a brief(ish) explainer breaking it down.