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Local communities who were hoping for new money in President Trump’s public health emergency declaration to fight the addiction crisis were disappointed.…
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Akron’s Quick Response Team has become the first in Summit County to offer residents naloxone kits and training on how to use them to counter the effects…
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Summit County Executive Ilene Shapiro is asking County Council to turn 25 acres of what used to be the Edwin Shaw rehab hospital over to two nonprofits –…
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Summit County Declares an Opioid State of Emergency, Prepares to Sue Drug Companies and DistributorsSummit County is preparing to sue the companies that make and distribute addictive painkillers. WKSU’s M.L. Schultze has more on the lawsuit the county…
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The community has been dealing with the effects of the opioid crisis for years, and people want answers and solutions that materialize into…
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Hundreds, if not thousands, of people in the Mahoning Valley have been revived from accidental drug overdoses in the last few years by a dose of Narcan…
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A Stark County company has come up with a glove that's resistant to fentanyl -- one of the drugs that first responders have increasingly been exposed to…
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The Mahoning Valley has been one of the hardest hit areas in the state by the ongoing opioid crisis. As local officials continue to struggle to find ways…
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Your Voice Mahoning Valley grows from a belief that the people are not being heard and that solutions to problems they face are not receiving adequate…
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A Gannett Newspapers reporter who was part of a team of journalists observing the opioid epidemic across Ohio in July wrote this about paramedics in…