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By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear’s Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee will hold its next town hall meeting on Tuesday, July 19, in Frankfort. The meeting will be...
Katie Marks, Ph.D. —– The first meeting of the commission that will allocate half the money from the state’s settlement with opioid companies will be held at 1 p.m. ET...
Kentucky Health News map shows counties in study; click it to enlarge. —– By Elizabeth Chapin University of Kentucky The $87 million study to find the best ways to battle...
Maps are from the report —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In the first year of the pandemic, the United States experienced the highest-ever combined rates of deaths due...
More than 150 attended the Recovery in the Workplace Conference. (Ky. Chamber of Commerce photo) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A June 21 conference to encourage Kentucky businesses to offer...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear has appointed a committee to advise him on how to provide access to medical cannabis for Kentuckians suffering from chronic pain...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 14.6 percent in Kentucky in 2021, according to the state’s annual report released Monday. “The drug epidemic is not a Kentucky...
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The lobbying organization for pharmacy benefit managers, the middlemen between insurance companies and drug manufacturers, spent $86,168 in its successful effort to defeat a...
A campaign to reduce stigma associated with substance-use disorders has shown it can change attitudes and beliefs about people with drug addictions and increase support for harm-reduction strategies. The campaign,...
A preliminary federal report shows drug overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 13.55% in 2021, to an estimated 2,391 deaths. It also shows that again, opioids and synthetic opioids, such as...