“Ohio was an apt forum for this showdown. By 2016, 2.3 million people in the state – approximately 20 percent of the total population – received a prescription for opioids. Half of the children who were in foster care across the state had opioid-addicted parents. People were dying from overdoses at such a rate that local coroners had run out of room in which to store all the bodies and were forced to seek makeshift alternatives.”
