60 people, including 31 doctors, eight nurses and seven pharmacists were charged with schemes to illegally distribute millions of pain pills. Two Ohio and three Kentucky doctors are included in this indictment as well, which was unsealed downtown in federal court yesterday (April 17). Opioid prescriptions were exchanged for sex in some cases, and […]
The opioid epidemic is now hitting black communities throughout the area harder than before, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Last year, 1 in 5 of 347 fatal overdoses counted by the Hamilton County Health Department was a black person. Compared to 2014, when the stats showed 1 in 8 of 248 overdose-death victims were […]
