Heroin Returning as Drug of Choice

Published October 9, 2013

Heroin returning as drug of choice
Recently released statistics by the Ohio Departments of Health and Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services revealed that in 2011 the leading cause of illegal drug overdose deaths in Ohio was heroin. Local law enforcement officials, however, could have told … Read more on News-Herald.com

Concerns raised over Kasich's painkiller guidelines
“Drug overdoses have reached epidemic proportions over the past decade, and too many Ohio families have felt the pain caused by the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs,” Kasich said in a statement. “We have a serious problem and we can't just sit … Read more on Columbus Dispatch

Report: Drug use, violence high at Toledo prison
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A report says the state prison in Toledo has Ohio's highest rates of inmate drug use, prisoner homicides and staff turnover. The report by a legislative prison committee says inmate-on-inmate and inmate-on-staff assaults jumped … Read more on Defiance Crescent News (subscription)