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A national nurses union is developing protocols for treating opioid patients after three Massillon nurses they represent were treated for fentanyl…

A Summit County man is working with local officials to bring fentanyl testing strips to Northeast Ohio.Greg McNeil, whose son was died of an overdose of…

Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas Gilson says the mixing of deadly synthetic heroin with cocaine is spreading the opioid crisis to the African…

The Senate has upped the penalties for possessing fentanyl, the deadly and powerful synthetic painkiller that’s been turning up in heroin in Ohio. Debate…

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman is reintroducing a bill he hopes will slow the flow of synthetic heroin such as fentanyl and carfentanil into the country.Many of…

Last year was a record year for fatal overdoses in Ohio. And a big part of that spike was the sudden appearance of the deadly opioid carfentanil.In this…

Update: Information on the suspected role of fentanyl has been added to this story.There is increasing concern in Akron over a possible new twist in the…

Cuyahoga County has released statistics for 2015 on drug-related deaths, and the numbers show a new trend toward a drug that’s 80 times more powerful than…