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The mobile crisis team will provide support to those experiencing a mental health crisis alongside Mansfield police.

There are laws to prevent kids from buying vapes and other tobacco products. It's not easy to enforce them.

Legal issues between Mohican Young Star and the state mental health and addiction services, began in late 2020 when several teens left the facility.

Ohioans without opioid addiction treatment near home are less likely to maintain their sobriety, and Ohio State University researchers found these provider "deserts" throughout Franklin County. An area is considered a desert if the distance from a person's home to a provider is a mile or more away, a two-minute drive by car or more than 30 minutes away on public transportation, according to a study published Wednesday in the medical journal PLOS ONE. Research has shown the likelihood of someone staying in treatment drops by up to 50% when a treatment provider is more than a mile away. "...

Special to The Times Eighty-four students at Hilliard City Schools have been hospitalized for mental health issues during the pandemic, officials say, an estimated fourfold increase over the average year. The district, home to about 16,000 students, has also seen 660 students contract COVID-19, seven of whom were hospitalized with the new disease, according to state and local records. The increase in mental health emergencies underscores the stakes of a difficult consideration for school administrators and parents: how to weigh the knowns and unknowns of a deadly pandemic that principally spr...