Heroin

Federal authorities have broken up a drug trafficking operation in Marion. Prosecutors say 43 people have been arrested in connection with the…

When fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, infiltrated the drug supply in the U.S. it had an immediate, dramatic effect on the overdose rate.

The Ohio Highway Patrol says no charges will be filed after a heroin-fentanyl mix led to an exposure problem at the Ross Correctional Institution in…

Overdose deaths started to level off near the end of 2017 and are "finally bending in the right direction," says Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, citing early data.

A poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health finds opioid abuse a top issue for rural Americans.

The Ohio Highway Patrol says the substance that led to 29 people at the Ross Correctional Instutition being treated for exposure Wednesday was a heroin…

A Franklin County grand jury has indicted five people on federal charges of luring women into prostitution. Prosecutors say 59-year-old Curtis Gossett led…

Whitehall police say officers executing a narcotics search warrant were confronted by an armed man and fatally shot him at an apartment complex on Great…

Authorities say 100 people have been charged with hundreds of counts of drug trafficking, including allegations of flooding the state with doses of deadly…

The man who federal prosecutors say led a large heroin smuggling ring with ties to a Mexican drug cartel was sentenced in Columbus Thursday to 21 years in…