The state's priority should be on getting opioid addicts into long-term treatment before it's too late.
It’s interesting to see how Ohio is attempting to organize itself in anticipation of a large settlement with the opioid manufacturers and distributors. It’s a good thing to make these companies pay for the destruction they have caused—400,000 deaths so far this century, with Ohio the second hardest-hit state. At the peak in 2010, there were 102.4 opioid prescriptions written for every...
