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White House Commission Recommends Actions On Opioid Crisis
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Roxanne Schwartz, of Lebanon, New Jersey, told a story to the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis Wednesday that could easily resonate with parents in the Ohio Valley…. Read More
Toledo Joins List Of Cities Suing Drugmakers Over Opioids
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – Ohio’s fourth-largest city is joining several cities and counties around the state by filing its own lawsuit against prescription drugmakers and distributors. Toledo Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson… Read More
Ohio Attorney General Wants Opioid Lawsuit Settled Promptly
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is asking five drugmakers sued for their alleged role in the state’s addictions epidemic to begin immediate settlement talks. The Republican… Read More
Opioid Emergency: How Trump’s Plan Will — And Won’t — Help The Ohio Valley
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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As bad as the opioid epidemic is across the nation, it is even worse here in the Ohio Valley. Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia collectively have a rate of opioid-related… Read More
Trumps Cite Ohio Valley Experience In Opioid Emergency Plan
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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President Donald Trump outlined on Thursday his long-awaited plan to address the opioid crisis as a national public health emergency. Part of that plan was based on experiences in the Ohio Valley… Read More
Little Regional Coordination As Trump Unveils Delayed Opioid Emergency Plan
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Many lawmakers from the Ohio Valley region say they’ll be at the White House Thursday as President Donald Trump is expected to unveil a long-awaited emergency declaration to address the… Read More
Ohio Launches Tech Challenge Aimed at Opioid Crisis
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DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) – Ohio has launched its $8 million effort to attract ideas for using technology to solve the national opioid addiction crisis. The state is pitching the Ohio… Read More
Quinones Hears From Nelsonville’s Side of Opioid Crisis
By: Lauren Ramoser
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Residents of Athens County had the chance to talk to Sam Quinones, author of the bestselling book Dreamland, as he visited Ohio University’s campus and Nelsonville High School to talk… Read More
Groups Hope For Momentum After Events Focused on Opioid Crisis
By: Aaron Payne
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ATHENS, Ohio — Community leaders are hoping discussions lead to solutions after several days of lectures, forums and open dialogue focused on the opioid crisis in Athens County. Randy Leite,… Read More
Ky. Attorney General Denies Involvement in Opioid Settlement
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear has repeatedly told lawmakers he had no involvement with a $24 million settlement against a pharmaceutical company. Former Democratic Attorney… Read More
Standing Together: Fighting Our Community’s Opioid Epidemic Community Discussion
Community discussion featuring Sam Quinones, journalist and author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opioid Epidemic. Dreamland, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, chronicles the… Read More
Southern Ohio Awarded $3 Million to Fight Opioid Abuse
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Department of Justice has allocated nearly $3 million to Ohio’s southern federal court district to supplement drug court programs as part of a national initiative… Read More
Opioids On Trial: Can Lawsuits Help Fix The Addiction Crisis?
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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When health care and law enforcement officials met recently at a health policy forum in Lexington, Kentucky, to share ideas about the opioid crisis, Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear listed… Read More
Sessions Returns to West Virginia to Discuss Opioid Crisis
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has returned to West Virginia for the second time in four months to discuss efforts to stop the nation’s opioid epidemic…. Read More
Kentucky Lawmakers Told Opioid Crisis ‘A Public Health Catastrophe’
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky’s opioid addiction crisis was the focus of a daylong meeting by state lawmakers. The Courier-Journal reports the joint House-Senate Health and Welfare Committee heard from… Read More
Kentucky County Joins Lawsuit Targeting Opioid Distributors
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HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) – A Kentucky county is joining a multi-county, multi-state effort to sue opioid distributors to recoup costs associated with the drug epidemic. The Henderson County Fiscal Court… Read More
Waiting For A Plan: No Action On Opioid Crisis Nearly A Month After Trump’s “Emergency”
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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It’s been nearly one month since President Trump told a group of reporters he was declaring the opioid crisis a national emergency. “The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I… Read More
Ohio Mayors Seek Emergency Response Center for Opioid Crisis
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – An organization representing Ohio big-city mayors wants Republican Gov. John Kasich to establish an emergency operations center to coordinate the state’s response to the opioid crisis…. Read More
Opioid Emergency: What The Ohio Valley Needs To Combat Crisis
By: Aaron Payne | Mary Meehan | Ohio Valley ReSource
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The opioid crisis gripping the Ohio Valley is now, according to President Donald Trump, a national emergency. But more than a week after the president made that announcement, state and… Read More
Trump Declares Opioid Crisis Emergency: Ohio Valley Reacts
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Days after sending mixed signals on his response to the nation’s opioid crisis, President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to declare a national emergency to better address the… Read More
High-Tech Ideas to Fix Opioid Crisis Compete for Ohio Grants
By: Julie Carr Smyth | AP Statehouse Correspondent
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio Gov. John Kasich called for scientific breakthroughs aimed at solving the opioid crisis, and grant-seekers are answering with ideas such as remotely controlled medication dispensers,… Read More
Data Fix: Cities Seek Better Information On Opioid Epidemic
By: Aaron Payne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Paramedics and police are already in the hotel room when Kyle Simpson walks in. “What happened?” he asks. A 37-year-old man in the room is barely conscious–just revived by the… Read More
Attorney Seeks New Trial After Opioid Pills Go Missing
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio defense attorney says at least one juror may have stolen oxycodone pills during a drug trial and that his client should get a new… Read More
Ohio Doctors Would Report Opioid Diagnosis Codes Under Deal
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio doctors have reached tentative agreement with the Kasich administration on a proposed rule requiring them to report the specific diagnosis of every patient who receives… Read More
Ohio Hospital Says Child Opioid Exposure Occurring Too Often
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – A doctor in southwest Ohio says her hospital has been treating as many as two children a week for accidental exposure to suspected opioids. Dr. Kelly… Read More
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