WOOSTER -- Just as Medway has "come out of the darkness" about its operations since its inception, members from the drug enforcement agency wanted to shed light on the area's prescription drug problem. "Things have changed folks," Jim Garrett said. "I came back again (from retirement) because of the drug problem in Wayne County." Patricia […]

The country’s drug abuse problem has plagued the American dream, but lives have been shattered at a local level and officials have seen enough. Lorain County recorded 67 deaths related to opiates last year. According to City Manager Eric Norenberg, four opiate-related overdoses in 2012 resulted in two deaths in Oberlin, where a forum was […]

No peeking. Off the top of your head, what's in your medicine cabinet? BandAids, antibiotic cream, perfume (you're supposed to keep good perfume out of the sunlight), tweezers, antacids, aspirin or one of the aspirin substitutes, cough syrup and, probably, leftover prescriptions. You know the prescriptions I mean. The pain killers you got when you […]

State Attorney General Mike DeWine recited the number of fatal heroin overdoses in 2013 for several counties during a forum Friday. He said there were seven in Richland County, but Coroner Dr. Stewart Ryckman corrected him to say there were 16. “That’s a shocking number,” DeWine said.

Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, Trumbull County coroner, reported in early September a noticeable spike in overdose deaths, especially among young females. Now he has the blood work in hand to confirm the causes of those deaths and others and calls overdose an “epidemic.” “It’s here. It’s real. It’s killing us. It’s in the city and out […]