Claim: Ohio county to distribute bags that deactivate drugs.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Mike DeWine
text: year in office, DeWine had worked to close all 12 pill mills in Scioto County, considered by many to have been the national center of the prescription drug crisis. DeWine's efforts also led to more than 100 doctors and pharmacists losing their licenses for improper prescription practices. In 2013, DeWine formed a new Heroin Unit to provide Ohio communities with law enforcement, legal, and outreach assistance to combat the state’s heroin problem. The Heroin Unit draws from new and existing office resources, including: BCI investigative and laboratory services, Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission assistance, prosecutorial support, and outreach and education

title: Portsmouth, Ohio
text: in prison. In 2011 the DEA and state and local law enforcement agencies worked to crack down on this problem. On May 17, 2011 the DEA served Immediate Suspension Orders (suspension of their license to practice medicine) on four local doctors and a pharmacy in Scioto County, including Dr. Margy Temponeras. In a press release, the DEA said that Temponeras was one of the largest dispensers of controlled substances in the US. The DEA also served ISOs on three other doctors: John Temponeras, Mark Fantazuzzi, and Michael Dawes, and a pharmacy, Prime Pharmacy, located at 902 Fourth Street in Portsmouth.

title: Portsmouth, Ohio
text: Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia). The crisis is blamed on the proliferation of cash-only pain clinics, known as "pill mills" by locals. According to authorities, there are eight such clinics in Scioto County alone, the largest concentration of such operations per capita in any of Ohio's counties. The clinics began opening in the late 1990s, after state legislators passed a law stating that doctors could not be prosecuted for prescribing painkillers as long as they had examined and documented that a patient was in intractable pain and needed the medication. The slightly more than half a dozen pain clinics dispense

title: Quick response team
text: program in 2016; the city's fire chief, Paul Lolli, reported that 92% of users contacted by the unit had "been able to enter treatment," although he acknowledged that the program had not recorded the results experienced by those who entered treatment, rendering the program's efficacy unclear. In June, 2017, citing opiate addiction as his community's "No. 1 public safety issue," Boone County, Ky., Judge-Executive Gary Moore announced that county's launch of its own Colerain-inspired overdose response team. By July, 2017, several other Ohio communities — including Colerain-neighboring Green Township, the cities of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Hamilton, Mansfield, Oxford and Troy, and

title: Portsmouth, Ohio
text: also notable for its football team, founded in 1929. It won two state championships in 1967 and 1970. Since the late 1990s and problems of unemployment, an epidemic of prescription drug abuse has swept the town and surrounding areas. It has caused a dramatic increase in Hepatitis C cases in the county, drug-related deaths, robberies, murder, and an increased incidence of children born addicted to prescription drugs. The most prevalent drug is OxyContin, a synthetic opiate originally developed as a cancer drug, known colloquially as "oxys" and "hillbilly heroin" (because of the drug's association with Appalachian areas of Kentucky, Ohio,

title: Risa Vetri Ferman
text: offenders to highlight rehabilitative services. In addition, Ferman supports diversionary programs within Montgomery County such as Veteran’s Treatment Court, Drug Treatment Court and Behavioral Health Court. In April 2013, Ferman established the Montgomery County Prescription Drug Disposal Program which places safe receptacles for the public to safely dispose of their old or unwanted prescription drugs. Ferman spread awareness about Teen Prescription Drug Abuse through her involvement with the McIntyre Family and the death of their son Ronald "Ronnie" Powell III as a result of prescription drug overdose. The District Attorney's Office has maintained a 98% conviction rate. In October 2014,

title: Portsmouth, Ohio
text: create an underground economy supporting the distribution of illegal substances. As of spring 2011, the county has had more than 120 drug-related deaths over the preceding decade, and in 2009 had the second-highest death rate in the state from accidental drug overdoses, although it is sparsely populated compared to the urban population centers of the state. According to Lisa Roberts, a registered nurse with the Portsmouth City Health Department, Southern Ohio distributes four times as many prescription drugs as Northern Ohio, contributing to the high death rates. Local deaths from a lethal drug combination of opiates, sedatives and muscle relaxants

title: Portsmouth, Ohio
text: are so common that locals have dubbed it the "Portsmouth Cocktail". Admissions into rehab facilities for painkiller addictions in the town are five times the national average. Almost one in 10 infants born in Scioto County in recent years has been addicted to prescription drugs. Because of the extent of the problem, the Drug Enforcement Administration has listed Scioto County on its watch list of the 10 most significant places in the country for trafficking in prescription drugs. In February 2011 NBC Universal had a film crew in the city filming for the cable TV show "Intervention". On April 11,

title: Quick response team
text: Ross County, Ohio, and its seat, Chillicothe, had launched their joint, multi-agency Post-Overdose Response Team (PORT), based on Colerain's QRT. In August, 2016, Oxford, Ohio, in Butler County, had "loosely" formed a QRT. By September, 2016, another Cincinnati suburb, Norwood, had developed and deployed a Colerain-model QRT. In January, 2017, the Funders' Response to the Heroin Epidemic — a Greater Cincinnati-based, private funding collaboration operated by InterAct for Change, a nonprofit subsidiary of Interact for Health — awarded both Colerain Township and Clermont County, Ohio, $100,000 grants to support (respectively) their QRT operational and development efforts. Both grants were to

title: Quick response team
text: Council of Greater Cincinnati. The QRT program included a "360 Solution" component, under which all Colerain patrol officers were equipped with nasal-delivery naloxone (Narcan), provided by the Ohio Department of Health and Hamilton County Public Health. Additionally, the police department canvassed the community several times door-to-door, delivering brochures that informed citizens about the township's efforts to respond to the opioid epidemic. Colerain's QRT members were trained to use "motivational interviewing" principles — expression of empathy to build rapport with the opiate user, helping the user to elicit the pros and cons of entering treatment, respecting the user's right to choose,

title: Terry Johnson (Ohio politician)
text: by a wide margin. Immediately after the results came in, he vowed to set his sights on southern Ohio's problem of prescription drug abuse, saying "We know what our priority is here in Scioto County. It’s what is killing us. It’s prescription drug abuse." Immediately after being sworn into office, Johnson began drafting legislation to address the issue of prescription drug abuse. Just a few months into his first term, Johnson had completed the legislation and introduced it as House Bill 93. The bill put limitations on in-office dispensing of controlled drugs, put licensing requirements on pain clinics and contained

title: Quick response team
text: a mobile overdose response program in that Southwestern Ohio locality. Also in June, 2017, Ohio governor John Kasich signed into law a state budget that allotted $3 million in grant funding to assist Ohio communities in developing their own QRT or DART programs. The grants were to be administered by the Ohio Attorney General's Office and the initial application period was set to begin in mid-July, 2017. In September, 2017, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that QRT/DART development grants had been awarded to 40 Ohio law enforcement agencies and their partner organizations. Hancock County received $87,500 and, by the

title: Drug disposal
text: pay for safe disposal of pharmaceutical waste. This ordinance required companies that manufacture drugs sold and distributed in Alameda County must operate and pay for a "Product Stewardship Program." Examples of these programs include a drug kiosk or mail-back program and volunteer collectors, such as law enforcement and pharmacies. Due to this program 8 other counties in California adopted similar programs, including San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Marin, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, Contra Costa, San Luis Obispo, and Tehama Counties. In California, entities including pharmacies in retail and hospital settings may host drug take-back programs as long as

title: Portsmouth, Ohio
text: The DEA had made a preliminary finding that the continued registration of these doctors and pharmacy constituted an imminent danger to public health and safety. The orders prohibit the parties from possessing or dispensing controlled substances, pending the outcome of ongoing investigations. As a result of the ISO, Dr. John Temponeras resigned from his position at the Southern Ohio Medical Center. The support group SOLACE formed to tackle this problem; it has helped to raise public awareness of the issue and has lobbied the state house for legislation. Governor John Kasich referred to the group in his first State of

title: AIDS Healthcare Foundation
text: Veterans Affairs (notwithstanding any other provision of law and insofar as permissible under federal law), while exempting managed care programs funded through Medi-Cal. It failed by a 6% margin. AHF spent $4.6 million supporting an initiative which would have allowed Cal/OSHA) to prosecute an enforcement action anytime a condom is not visible in a pornographic film. On August 3, 2015, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine approved petition language for a drug pricing 2016 statewide ballot initiative to enact Section 194.01 of the Ohio Revised Code to seek United States Department of Veterans Affairs prescription drug pricing for state programs. On

title: Quick response team
text: 2017, Lucas County sheriff John Tharp stated that that county's DART program had, in the 3 years since its first deployment, achieved a similar success rate, with 74% of contacted individuals having either entered detox or connected with other substance abuse treatment programs. The Colerain QRT's initial successes in addressing that township's opiate abuse epidemic garnered close attention from officials in surrounding communities, many of which expressed interest in adopting the model. Within the QRT's first 2 years of operation, communities in North Carolina, northern Ohio, Texas and West Virginia contacted Colerain to inquire about its program. By June, 2016,

title: Terry Johnson (Ohio politician)
text: medical doctor in the state legislature, has made huge strides in the fight against prescription drug abuse, championing House Bill 93, which effectively shut down pill mills in the area." Johnson cruised to victory, winning all three counties in the district by double-digits. He carried Adams County 70%-30%, Scioto County 64%-36% and Lawrence County 57%-43%. Terry Johnson (Ohio politician) Dr. Terry Johnson (born November 3, 1956) is a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives for the 90th district. He is an osteopathic physician who became a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 2011. He was unopposed

title: Gene Zmuda
text: on the Lucas County Common Pleas Court. Taft then appointed Zmuda to fill this seat. The tenure of Municipal Court Judge Zmuda is perhaps best known for his striking down of a law banning the transportation of alcohol into Ohio from other states. Judge Zmuda opined that the application of the law was unconstitutional because it violated the interstate commerce clause of the United States Constitution. This was effectively seen as a victory for local college students who had made a habit of bringing beer kegs over the nearby Michigan border. In 2006, Zmuda was elected board President of the

title: Quick response team
text: Addiction Services Council of Greater Cincinnati. Concurrently and independently of the Colerain program, Lucas County, Ohio, developed its similar DART model, which it also first deployed in 2014. Meloy and other Colerain officials saw the need to develop more innovative, person-centered approaches to reduce the then-sharply rising number of narcotic overdoses in their community, which had been particularly hard-hit by the United States' mid-2010s opioid epidemic. At the time of the QRT pilot program's development, Colerain Township had approximately 60,000 residents, usually covered by just 33 fire/EMS personnel and 6 patrol officers at any given time. Whereas in 2011, Colerain

title: People v. Turner
text: He will be on probation for three years with reciprocal supervision through the Greene County, Ohio, Sheriff's Office. Conditions of probation included abstention from drugs and alcohol during that period. The day of his release, Turner's parents contacted the police, expressing worry about protesters being a danger to their safety. The day after his release, protesters gathered on the sidewalk outside his family's Ohio home. One protester, while brandishing a gun in the open carry state, held a sign urging attendees to "shoot your local rapist". At the time of his conviction, it was reported that Turner's legal appeal would