Month: September 2019
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Kentucky public health nurses and administrative staff travel to North Carolina to help people displaced by Hurricane Dorian
A team of Kentucky public-health nurses are on their way to North Carolina to provide medical support in local shelters filled by Hurricane Dorian for about two weeks, said the...
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Save the date: Friday, Nov. 15, to attend Covering Substance Abuse and Recovery, a workshop for journalists, in Ashland
Covering Substance Abuse and Recovery: A Workshop for Journalists will be held in Ashland Nov. 15 by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues and Oak Ridge Associated Universities. The workshop is...
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Regular users of syringe exchanges who say they can decrease opioid use (and don’t use meth) are more likely to get treatment
One of the first studies to explore syringe-service programs in rural counties found that the participants who consistently used a syringe exchange and voiced high confidence in their ability to...
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Meth is Pikeville’s ‘drug of choice.’ It’s epidemic, involved in 80% of arrests, and its addiction is harder to treat than opioid addiction.
Pikeville and Pike County are battling a resurgence in use of methamphetamine, reports Alex Acquisto of the Lexington Herald-Leader. The area has been ground zero for the opioid epidemic, but “a quieter crisis...
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UK gets $1.3 million grant to help train more substance-abuse and behavioral-health workers for work in Appalachia
The College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky has received a three-year, $1.3 million federal grant to help get more substance-abuse and behavioral-health workers in Appalachia. “More than two-thirds of Kentucky’s counties...
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State health officials ask health-care providers to report cases of any lung problems related to e-cigarettes; they plan to investigate
State health officials will be working closely with health-care providers, local health departments and federal health officials to gather information and investigate any cases of severe pulmonary disease related to...
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People in the most rural areas are more likely to die from colon cancer even though they are less likely to get it in the first place
Patients who live in remote or very small rural communities are a bit more likely to show up at their doctor’s office with late-stage colon cancer than other Americans, which...
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September is National Recovery Month; recovering addict Rex Chapman slated to attend event in Paintsville Sept. 21
Every September, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration sponsors National Recovery Month to increase awareness and understanding of substance-use and mental disorders and to celebrate the people who recover. “This...