Despite the shutdown of pill mills and years of crackdowns, Portsmouth remains in the deadly grip of Ohio’s drug crisis. Scioto County continues to lead the state in overdose deaths—and on Wednesday night, another local family was left grieving. Just before 8 p.m., emergency crews responded to a home after 911 callers reported a possible […]
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