Opioids Epidemic

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.

Justices sitting on the Ohio Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case over whether pharmacies can be held liable for selling and distributing legal opioid painkillers.

Ohio joins a growing number of states are decriminalizing fentanyl testing strips, seeking to protect people who use drugs from unwitting exposure to the highly potent synthetic opioid ravaging the U.S. with overdose deaths.

The Biden administration will use data from EMS first responders to track overdoses. The focus will be on improving response to a public health crisis that kills more than 100,000 Americans annually.

The opioid crisis continues with overdose rates among Black Ohioans are higher than among white Ohioans. We’ll look at what’s being done to prevent deaths in Ohio’s African American communities.

A hearing began Tuesday in federal court in Cleveland that will help a judge determine how much CVS, Walgreens and Walmart should pay two northeast Ohio counties to help them ease the continuing opioid crisis.

For the first time, researchers at OSU’s Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine have added up the deaths of young people in terms of years of life lost. The study’s findings were published online in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

Ohio neighborhoods with more opioid overdoses also have a higher rate of child abuse, according to a new study from the Ohio State University’s College of Social Work.

A recent analysis of statewide mortality data concluded that Ohio set a one-month record in May, exceeding 500 overdose deaths for the first time…

The state Attorney General's Office says Ohio will receive nearly $40 million as part of a nationwide settlement with a British company that once…