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Monday, September 3, 2018
Ronald Dye pressured his brother-in-law into trying heroin to ease his pain — injecting his arm with the deadly drug.
Coreon Snow-Veley sold heroin to a young man — heroin that happened to be laced with fentanyl.
Both men were convicted in Lucas County Common Pleas Court of involuntary manslaughter for causing another to overdose and die
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Fentanyl is a big culprit, but there are also encouraging signs from states that have prioritized public health campaigns and addiction treatment.
Drug overdoses killed about 72,000 Americans last year, a record number that reflects a rise of around 10 percent, according to new preliminary estimates from the Centers for Disease Control. The death toll is
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Friday, August 10, 2018
The opioid crisis shows no signs of subsiding.
When addicts show up at emergency rooms, there’s a good chance they won’t find help, says Julie Havlak, writing for Carolina Journal News Service.
“I see individuals walk into the emergency department, saying, ‘I’m fed up, I’m done, I want to stop doing heroin. Can you help
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018
PIKETON, Ohio - Richard Kreager is quick to share his most embarrassing photos: The one where he is handcuffed on the side of the road, surrounded by police officers, or the shot of him lying in a hospital bed, hooked to a ventilator, his kidneys shutting down.
Each, he says, serves as a cautionary tale of his addiction to methamphetamine.
"They say one
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018
DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF/WRGT)
Issue 1 will be one on the November ballot. That means Ohioans will vote on whether to reduce penalties for non-violent drug offenders.
Addiction is hard to overcome, but some parents say full recovery can be just as difficult.
“It’s hard for him to move forward and start a new life,” said a Dayton area
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Rogue prescribers and Medicaid “doctor shoppers” are using taxpayer-funded insurance to fuel the deadly opioid epidemic, according to a new audit Tuesday that found 1 in 6 people on Ohio’s government-run health program for the poor were prescribed opioids and hundreds of them were at “serious risk” of overdosing.
One Medicaid
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