Opioids

Keys 2 Serenity, a Summit County nonprofit, is one of hundreds of grant applicants who didn’t get funding from the OneOhio Recovery Foundation this round. The group wants to build a support group for teens and young adults who lost a parent to the opioid crisis.

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state's product liability law prohibits counties from bringing public nuisance claims against national pharmaceutical chains as they did as part of national opioid litigation.

There’s been a large increase in the amount of bystanders who administer opioid reversal medication in the event of an overdose. Researchers say a lot more still needs to be done.

Cuyahoga and Summit counties were the first in Ohio to sue opioid makers and distributors. Now, they have to decide how distribute the payout.

The drug is being administered more by bystanders, but the vast majority of naloxone is being given by professionals.

The OneOhio Recovery Foundation, who has been tasked with distributing over $860 million of settlements reached with drugmakers and pharmaceutical companies for their roles in the national opioid crisis, plans to release its formal request for proposals Monday.

The federal lawsuit claimed Indivior Inc. made changes to its product to extend the patent, preventing other companies from making cheaper alternatives.

A nonprofit tried to halt the foundation from spending the money until it complied, but the judge did not grant that request.

Black people had the second highest overdose death rate in 2020. In Franklin County drug deaths among blacks were up 55%.

The lawsuit accused them of causing a health crisis by distributing 81 million pills over eight years in one West Virginia county ravaged by opioid addiction.