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WASHINGTON, D. C. - Ohio’s foster care system does not adequately track psychotropic and opioid medication prescriptions for children in its care who have painful injuries or conditions including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression, schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders that require such drugs, according to an inspector general’s report released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A woman rushed the 12-week-old puppy to the fire station where medics administered naloxone using a pediatric nebulizer mask

As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues, opioid overdose deaths are surging nationwide.

Drug deaths in America, which fell for the first time in 25 years in 2018, rose to record numbers in 2019 and are continuing to climb, a resurgence that is being complicated and perhaps worsened by the coronavirus pandemic.

As the United States and the world reel from COVID-19, another epidemic, opioid addiction, continues to ravage the U.S.

Emergency response data from across the Ohio Valley show sharp increases in suspected drug overdoses since March, when health measures including school and business closures and stay-at-home orders increased social isolation.

States are pushing drug distributors McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health Inc. and AmerisourceBergen Corp. to add $2.3 billion to their $19.2 billion proposal to resolve government lawsuits over the U.S. opioid epidemic.

The Millennium Health report released Wednesday tracked illicit drug use trends by evaluating more than 500,000 urine drug tests.