Collaboration set to tackle Mid-Ohio Valley’s opioid crisis

As journalists who try to bring you meaningful news that helps create better communities, we’re troubled that our reporting has not resulted in widespread public mobilization for solutions to the addiction crisis.

Consider: 3,300 have died in the U.S. in the last 20 years due to terrorist attacks, all but 400 in one event on Sept. 11, 2001. But in Ohio and West Virginia alone, nearly 5,000 are dying each year of opioid overdoses — an addictive drug that many began using as a prescription from a doctor.