WARREN — City council on Tuesday agreed to accept $500,000 as part of a multistate opioid lawsuit settlement that initially will provide about $4.5 million to Ohio. However, Warren’s share can increase to $709,096 if other conditions of the agreement are met over the course of the next 18 ...

WARREN — It appears Trumbull County is on track to surpass a record set in 2017 for the most fatal overdoses in the county in one year. In 2017, 56 deaths were recorded by June 28. Through June 28 this year, 57 fatal overdoses were logged, but 10 more from that time period still are ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Five retail chains flooded two Ohio counties with tens of millions of prescription painkillers through their pharmacies while taking few if any steps to stop drugs from being illegally diverted, according to updated lawsuits unsealed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland. The ...

WARREN — Drug overdose rates that went down in 2018 are back on the rise in 2019, and Trumbull County is on track to match record accidental overdose deaths in 2017, according to the executive director of the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board. “The tox screens show that ...

With Republicans and Democrats joining forces again in a bipartisan effort to target the U.S. opioid crisis, an Associated Press analysis of the first wave of emergency money from Congress finds that states are taking very different approaches to spending it. To a large extent, the ...

COLUMBUS — Ohio didn’t hesitate to spend the first round of federal funding targeting the country’s opioid crisis, unlike other states that also expanded Medicaid under the national health care law, records show. State officials spent $19 million, or about 73 percent, of the money it ...