Ohio health officials said on Wednesday that more than 4,000 people died from drug overdoses in Ohio in 2016. That death toll was up by 33 percent over the previous year. As Gov. John Kasich rolls out ...

Last year, Ohio changed its rules for prescribing opioids, restricting amounts of, and circumstances under which, doctors can prescribe those narcotics. The new rules have an exemption for people who ...

Fewer pills and more oversight. Those are just some of the aspects of new state rules to help fight the opioid crisis in Washington state. The rules are the result of legislation passed in 2017 ...

WEBVTT FOR THE END OFTHE WEEK IN A FEW MINUTES.ADAM: THANK YOU.TURNING TO NEW HAMPSHIRE'S DRUGCRISIS, TODAY NEW PRESCRIBINGREGULATIONS TAKE EFFECT AIMED ATREDUCING THE NUMBER OF OPIOIDPILLS USED IN ...

Changes to how we've been able to get prescriptions online the last few years have been put on pause, allowing pandemic-era loosened restrictions on some medications to remain in effect for at least ...

The CSKT are among countless tribal, local and state governments fighting opioid abuse. Unlike with meth or heroin, those 46 deaths had legal beginnings. They were “implemented by … a provider” who ...