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Ky. Health News map shows counties in HEALing Communities Study —– The anti-overdose drug Narcan is now available free of charge to people under community supervision by the state Department of...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state House of Representatives passed a two-year state budget Thursday that includes a number of provisions for health, including many that were in...
Michael R. Bloomberg —– Kentucky is among seven states that will get millions of dollars from Bloomberg Philanthropies to fight the opioid-overdose epidemic. Gov. Andy Beshear announced the $10 million grant to...
Buprenorphine is given with naloxone to stop overdose, and alone as drug treatment. —– As deaths from opioid overdoses continue to set records in Kentucky and the nation, a new study has...
A new toolkit from the Rural Health Information Hub aims to help rural communities and organizations develop, implement, evaluate and sustain Medication for Opioid Use Disorder programs. MOUD programs, sometimes called Medication-Assisted Therapy, are...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky has launched a new program that will lessen the risk of liability to employers who hire or retain people with substance-use disorder —...
CNN photo —– The 49% increase in drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky in 2020 included a big jump among young people, Jasmine Demers reports for the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. Her object example...
Numbered counties in red: 2, Cumberland; 3, Clinton; 10, Robertson; 13, Menifee. —- A not-for-profit organization headed by former Gov. Ernie Fletcher, who was a doctor before he got into...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 49% in 2020, according to the state’s latest annual report. “In addition to the stress caused by the pandemic, we...
Opioid tablets (Getty Images photo) —– Kentucky’s Daniel Cameron and other state attorneys general announced Wednesday a tentative settlement with the nation’s three top drug distributors and drug maker Johnson & Johnson for their...