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OneOhio has insisted it does not have to oblige with open record laws. Those suing disagree.

House Bill 456 would decriminalize fentanyl drug testing strips, which detect the tasteless, colorless opioid that often creeps its way into other drugs like cocaine, meth, heroine and Adderall.

Area bartenders are armed with fentanyl detection strips and Narcan training to prevent overdoses.

In Chillicothe, Ohio, one pastor offers rogue services for friends and loved ones of those who died of drug overdoses, gifting them the ability to grieve

Ohio is launching a targeted deployment of naloxone, sending 60,000 doses of the antidote for an opioid overdose to 23 counties. The idea is to get ahead of a usual summertime rise in overdoses. Yet one of its partners in distributing the naloxone questions the equity of the plan, calling it racially biased. Harm Reduction Ohio says the state’s plan excludes some areas that have high overdose death rates for Black Ohioans, including parts of Cincinnati and Columbus. It also charges the plan gives an insufficient amount of the drug to rural areas. The heart of the problem: The two sides u...