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By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Most Kentucky counties now have harm-reduction programs to fight drug abuse, but the coronavirus pandemic has slowed their expansion and complicated the work of...
Graph from Kentucky Injury Prevention Research Center, University of Kentucky —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Apparent overdoses reported by Kentucky hospitals and ambulance services shot up in the...
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky‘s 20th annual policy forum will focus on policies and programs that reduce the chances of disease and unhealthy behaviors that often begin in childhood, including...
Volunteers of America Mid-States received a $2.6 million federal grant, one of three in the nation, for treatment and recovery services for pregnant and postpartum women and their children in southeastern...
One of the major obstacles to dealing with substance abuse is the stigma it still has among many people, so the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce says it has launched a major effort...
Getty Images —– By Lindsey Piercy and Kaitlin Brooks University of Kentucky The first students to participate in program aimed at combating Kentucky’s opioid epidemic have graduated and gone to...
A new synthetic opiate, isotonitazene, may require more than a usual dose of naloxone (Narcan) to restore breathing. —– A new synthetic opiate is showing signs of penetrating new markets,...
Image from Alcohol.org —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Economic struggles and social isolation are well-known triggers for people with substance-use disorders, so the coronavirus pandemic has created a perfect...
By Tim Robinson Tim Robinson is CEO of Addiction Recovery Care and a founding member of RECON KY, a consortium for recovery in Kentucky. When grave new challenges emerge, it would be nice...
Dakota Scott, with her two-week-old daughter, fights meth addiction at Karen’s Place Maternity Center in Ashland, a facility for women in addiction recovery (Photo by Hilary Swift for The New York...