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The Overlap Between Mental Health & The Opioid Crisis
We have previously explored how people can become chemically dependent on opioids, and it's …
Cost of An Epidemic
Late last year, Ohio State University’s C. William Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy conducted a …
Expanding Access to MAT
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT), including Methadone, Buprenorphine, and Naltrexone, has been …
Ohioans have solutions to the addiction crisis. Is anyone listening?
Give Ohioans time to listen to one another and they are capable of developing a plan to turn around …
Is treatment covered by my insurance plan?
If you want to learn more about substance use disorder treatment options for yourself or someone you …
Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate: Community Conversations in Central Ohio
Over the last week, journalists from the Columbus Dispatch, Newark Advocate, Marion Star, and …
Taxing Opioids
We have explored the role pharmaceutical companies have played in our current opioid crisis and …
Stopping the flow of dangerous drugs into our communities
Synthetic opioids like Fentanyl have played a huge role in the spike of overdose fatalities in Ohio …
The Role of Pharmaceutical Companies
Of all unintentional overdose deaths in Ohio in 2016, 20.6 percent had an opioid prescription in the …
Exploring the Data Behind the Opioid Epidemic
What proportion of the population has been directly affected by the opioid epidemic? What does an …
Where Can People Turn When Loved Ones Need Help?
The addiction epidemic across Ohio isn’t just felt by individuals: when someone is struggling with …
How Opioid Addiction Works
Over the course of our community conversations around Ohio, we've heard many different questions …
Exploring Employment Resources for People in Recovery
For many people leaving a rehabilitation program or finishing serving time for a drug-related crime, …
Harm Reduction – Part 2: Overdose Education & Community Naloxone Distribution
One approach to preventing opioid overdose fatalities is to provide overdose education and naloxone …
Harm Reduction – Part 1: Heroin Clinics & Syringe Exchange Programs
The next two weeks we will be analyzing different components of harm reduction responses to the …
Reassessing Law Enforcement’s Approach to the Opioid Epidemic
This week, we took a look at various studies which assess the scientific basis of law enforcement …
Alternative Pain Treatments: Part 2
Last week, we looked at alternative pain treatments including over-the-counter drugs and cannabis. …
Alternative Pain Treatments: Part 1
We read statistics on opioid use disorder every day when covering the crisis. According to a study …
What does effective treatment look like? Breaking down the Risk-Need-Responsivity Model
Drug courts are redefining how we approach the opioid epidemic, by putting it in context of a health …