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SUSAN ZAKE/KSU COLLABORATIVE NEWS LABHere are your morning headlines for Tuesday, July 14:Akron makes face masks mandatory as COVID-19 cases continue to riseCleveland ranks as most stressed… -
Cuyahoga County is facing a $33.5 million deficit in its Health and Human Services budget before its levy is up for renewal next year. The county is running out of money due in large part to the high numbers of children entering foster care as part of the ripple effect of the opioid crisis. The cost of foster care in Cuyahoga County is close to $5 million per month and growing, according to county officials at a Monday briefing.
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Ohio’s opioid crisis is causing problems for the state’s crime lab. The Bureau of Criminal Investigation, which processes chemical evidence for cases… -
People struggling with addiction, their loved ones and the drug that’s destroying their lives are among the characters in a new play opening at the Akron… -
Stark County will be able to treat nearly a thousand more patients for opioid addiction after receiving a federal grant.The $615,000will be used to expand… -
A Chinese national is expected to arrive in Northeast Ohio this week to face federal charges that he imported and shipped large amounts of fentynal,… -
Stark County is offering Narcan over-dose revival kits to opiate-addicted inmates who are released from the county jail. Sheriff George Maier says Stark… -
Canton-based CommQuest has opened the first medication-assisted treatment clinic in one of the areas of the state hit hardest by the opioid crisis.… -
A major new study on the opioid epidemic that has swept through Ohio and much of the rest of the country says the painkillers that triggered the crisis… -
Akron Public Schools will have Narcan on hand this fall. Monday, the school board approved equipping the district’s 18 high schools and middle schools… -
Sen. Sherrod Brown was in Cleveland yesterday encouraging people to make their voices heard about the proposed Senate Health Care Bill -- which could be… -
Attorney General Mike DeWine’s lawsuit against five drug companies is drawing mixed reactions from candidates for governor in 2018.DeWine filed suit… -
In his State of the State speech last month, Gov. John Kasich announced he wants the state’s Third Frontier Commission to spend $20 million toward… -
Summit County officials are saying that a new opioid cocktail appearing in Southern Ohio is not yet a problem in Northeast Ohio.“Gray Death” is a…
