overdoses

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

The Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Board of Franklin County started working with Mid-City Electric to build a program to help construction workers get connected to mental health and addiction services.

Emergent BioSolutions has applied to the Food and Drug Administration to sell the opioid overdose-reversal drug over the counter. Addiction experts say it may be a key step to lower fentanyl deaths.

New numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that synthetic opioid use is driving the overdose crisis in the U.S.

The students were taken to area hospitals after a roommate reported the overdoses at an off-campus residence on East Lane Avenue.

More than 5,000 Ohioans died of a drug overdose in 2020, but officials with the Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Board of Franklin County are hoping this new effort will help prevent overdose deaths.

Of the death’s investigated by the Franklin County Coroner’s Office in 2016, drug overdoses accounted for more than twice as many casualties as car…

Ohio's governor has proposed allowing counties to create committees that would review overdose fatalities, and the public would have limited access to the…

A Columbus man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for selling a potent drug that authorities say led to two deaths and nine nonfatal…

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…