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The opioid carfentanil is roughly 10,000 times more potent than morphine — but until now, it hasn't been a controlled substance in China.

Jennifer Mills drives down a long open road, flanked by fields of yellow grass, clouds overhanging.As a child services caseworker, Mills says on most days…

Franklin County officials report they have discovered pills sold on the streets that were marked as oxycodone were actually counterfeit and contain…

State investigators say they’ve brought drug charges against two people using evidence from last year’s murder of eight people in Pike County. Police say…

As the number of opioid-related deaths in Ohio remains high, the number of prescriptions dropped for the fourth straight year. The State Board of Pharmacy…

Charlie Oen was addicted to heroin as a teenager. At 25, he's now clean and a peer counselor in Lima, Ohio, where he tries to help people who started using drugs before he was born.

A new survey of Ohioan’s health concerns shows drug use tops the list followed closely by health insurance.The Ohio Health Issues Poll says for 21 percent…

Columbus police and health officials said today they have responded to an increased number of overdoses in the city, many of them in the Linden…

Child welfare advocates in Ohio say children have become the "invisible victims" of the opioid crisis as more kids are put into foster care and funding…

A county judge is granting immunity from prosecution to anyone who turns in heroin or other potentially deadly drugs after a stunning surge in overdoses…