opioid crisis

McKinsey is the latest major American corporation to face legal, financial and public relations peril stemming from its role in the nation's deadly opioid epidemic.

The change means that doctors will no longer need a special federal waiver in order to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication to treat opioid use disorder.

Early Friday morning, kids streamed up Park Street in downtown Chilicothe. Places like this have borne the brunt of Ohio’s opioid crisis—the Ross County…

Ohio plans to increase payments to approved relatives caring for children who were taken from their parents even when the family members aren't licensed…

A roughly $260 million settlement was reached yesterday in a landmark federal opioid lawsuit. Two ohio counties, Cuyahoga and Summit, were the plaintiffs…

Guests: Nick Castele,reporter IdeaStream Corey Davis, Director of the Network for Public Health Law’s Harm Reduction Legal Project Greta Johnson,…

The number of women in U.S. prisons has more than doubled since 1990. And the rate of incarceration for women is twice that of men.Much of the increase is…

Opioid addiction continues to deplete Ohio’s communities and is driving up the number of children entering foster care. It’s been a year since the Ohio…

The Ohio Department of Medicaid announced that Medicaid will begin covering more medications to help with drug withdrawal symptoms, beginning in…

72,000 people around the country died of drug overdoses last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In Ohio, there were 4,854 people who...