County officials launch opiate task force, response team

Franklin County Coroner Dr. Anahi Ortiz announced a new initiative to fix the worsening opiate problem throughout Central Ohio."In 2014 we started seeing a sharp increase in overdose deaths, between 2014 and 2015,” said Dr. Ortiz. “That's when we started to see an increase here, in terms of autopsies we were doing."She said she became dedicated at that point to creating a death review board. The group, which combined organizations and agencies all over Franklin County met once each m