President Trump has officially declared the country's opioid crisis as a national emergency with an estimation of 2.6 million people struggling with opioid addiction in the United States. The opioid crisis started in the 1990s once opioid prescriptions began flooding the market and now America is the world's largest consumer of pain killers.
Coming up, we're talking about the country's opioid crisis and the latest in state and national news with a panel of reporters.
Guests:
- Jo Ingles, reporter, Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau
- Julie Carr Smyth, statehouse correspondent, Associated Press
- Laura Bischoff, correspondent, Dayton Daily News