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Once among the hardest hit by the opioid epidemic, overdose deaths are falling in Ohio, though challenges remain.

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An Oregon City man was sentenced to prison after selling counterfeit pills containing protonitazene, a potent drug that's up ...

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The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other ...

Money raised by lawsuits against opioid manufacturers is being spent on fixing the damages done by drug abuse and overdoses, ...

Cuyahoga County's relatively new withdrawal and recovery pod is possible because of opioid settlement dollars. But what else ...

Chicago and Cook County saw another steep decline in fatal opioid overdoses last year, records show, four years after a ...

Chicago saw a dramatic decrease in opioid overdose deaths in 2025. Law enforcement and public health professionals worked in ...