epidemic

Ohio conference highlights drug abuse epidemic’s effects on children of all ages

CINCINNATI (AP) — The country’s addictions epidemic has created a generation of children affected by their parents’ problems, a doctor who works with infants born addicted to heroin told a gathering of experts struggling with the issue Tuesday. The effect includes the physical problems of the addicted newborns and the chaos older children experience as [...]

Ohio chief justice speaks on court impacts, roles in drug epidemic

CINCINNATI — The chief justice of Ohio’s supreme court helped bring together experts and officials from nine states in a regional judicial summit on the opioid drug epidemic, even as an overdose surge sweeping nearby streets showed dramatically the scope of the problem. Before the three-day summit began last week, Cincinnati first responders were chasing [...]