Overdose

Doctors who prescribe opioid painkillers should tell their patients about a potentially life-saving medication that can reverse drug overdoses

ERIE COUNTY, Ohio — Erie County health officials have issued a "Bad Batch Alert"

SCIOTO — Fears that the coronavirus could lead to increased opioid overdoses have become a reality in Ohio and Scioto County.

Fatal drug overdoses are rising again in Ohio just a year after the state’s first decline in nine years as the opioid crisis tore through the state.

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

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

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.

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.