Heroin

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 Franklin County Sheriff will take over on January 2: Dallas Baldwin, a retired Lieutenant with the Columbus Police Department.Baldwin replaces Zach…

The Kaiser Family Foundation says that in 2014, Ohio had the highest number of deaths from opiate overdoses in the U.S.In Ohio in 2014, 2,106 people died…

A prominent Republican Northeast Ohio state representative has joined a Democratic effort to push Gov. John Kasich to declare a statewide opioid...

A man convicted of beating his wife's heroin supplier with a baseball bat has been sentenced to probation by an Ohio judge, who noted extensive support…

More than 1,340 pharmacies across Ohio are now able to distribute Naloxone - a drug that can reverse a heroin overdose - without a prescription. The…

Attorneys general from West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky are expected to meet with experts from law enforcement, health care and faith-based groups next…

Central Ohio is reeling from a string of overdoses related to a national epidemic of opioid and heroin addiction.But 30 years ago there was another drug…

Columbus first responders say the city's rash of opiate overdoses continues. Paramedics say at least 22 doses on an overdose reversal drug were…

Columbus police have issued what they call an urgent public safety notice about a rash of suspected drug overdoses on Tuesday.Police say first responders…