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Monday, September 19, 2016
BLUE CREEK, Ohio — The family homestead is remote, its long, dirt-and-gravel driveway cutting deep into the Appalachian countryside. Suzanne Valle hangs a sign on the mailbox because first-time visitors often miss the turn.
The party is here.
Doesn't matter how many days or weeks have passed since the last child's birthday bash, Valle figures. That
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Friday, September 16, 2016
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is preparing to launch a renewed strategy to address the unrelenting scourge of heroin and opioid addiction, in part by placing greater emphasis on identifying links between over-prescribing doctors and distribution networks across the country.
The plan, outlined by Attorney General Loretta Lynch in an interview
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Monday, September 12, 2016
They're supposed to be a safe space for the community to learn and read books, but lately public libraries have become a haven for heroin addicts.
According to the Lucas County Drug Abuse Response Team, libraries are increasing security and training for library staff on how to use narcan - the overdose reversing drug.
One library-goer at the downtown
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Friday, September 9, 2016
Marijuana legalization advocates have long argued that pharmaceutical companies, which could lose out if marijuana is legally available, are some of the staunchest supporters of pot prohibition, and now an Arizona company is making their case for them.
According to campaign finance reports posted online by the Arizona secretary of state's office, fentanyl
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016
With each passing month, it seems that the nation's opioid epidemic can't possibly get any worse. Then it does -– especially here in Ohio.
In the past two weeks, more than 200 overdoses in the Cincinnati area alone have claimed the lives of three people. Many more users likely would have died, were it not for an unprecedented, modern medical
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Sunday, September 4, 2016
“Acceptance is the priority,” Karen Freiberger, a parent (see her story on page 8) said. “This is not an inner-city problem or an urban problem or a poor or rich problem. There are no barriers here. Heroin is available to anyone and it is used by people across our community spectrum. Denial of the pervasiveness of the problem gives addicts
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