The state Senate overwhelmingly voted Thursday to pass a bill which would limit opioid prescriptions from health providers in the state as well as require training on opioid abuse for medical practitioners.
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Ohio sues 5 major drug companies for ‘fueling opioid epidemic’
The state’s attorney general filed the lawsuit Wednesday, alleging fraudulent marketing. “They knew they were wrong,” Mike DeWine says, “but they did it anyway — and they continue to do it.”
State grant to help Ketchikan agencies reduce recidivism
A coalition of Ketchikan agencies is gathering to explore how to help people getting out of jail stay out of jail with the help of a state grant.
No legislative action on special session’s seventh day
There has been no sign of progress in resolving the state’s budget crisis. Special sessions typically cost $20,000 to $30,000 each day.
House passes bill intended to curb opioid overdose deaths
House Bill 159 would cut the number of days’ supply of opioid pills in a single prescription.
New laws in the U.K. and EU further restrict tobacco industry
An EU directive goes into force today, with new rules regulating the tobacco industry. The U.K. is going further: Cigarettes must now be sold in plain green packaging with graphic health warnings.
A new meth surge gathers momentum across U.S.
The opioid epidemic has killed tens of thousands over the past two years and driven major reforms in state and local law enforcement and public health policies for people with addiction. But another deadly but popular drug, methamphetamine, also has been surging in many parts of the country. And federal officials say that, based on…
Addiction experts: Health secretary’s comments on opioid treatments unscientific and damaging
Addiction experts are up in arms after Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price referred to medication-assisted treatment as “substituting one opioid for another.”
Sessions tells prosecutors to seek ‘most serious’ charges, stricter sentences
The move, which was announced in a memo, reverses an Obama-era recommendation that asked federal prosecutors not to hit low-level drug offenders with charges that carry mandatory minimum sentences.
Public restrooms become ground zero in the opioid epidemic
People often turn to public restrooms as a place to get high on opioids. It has led some establishments to close their facilities, while others are training employees to help people who overdose.