Day: July 14, 2025
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State health initiative focuses on addiction and harm reduction in July
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The focus of July’s “Our Healthy Kentucky Home” initiative is substance use disorder, otherwise known as addiction, and harm reduction. “More than 80,000 people...
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LEX18: Addiction recovery centers adjusting to payment cuts, calling the cuts ‘detrimental’ to client care
Cuts to Medicaid from the insurance companies that are hired to manage them will be “detrimental” to the recovery community, according to Isaiah House, Kentucky’s largest non-profit addiction recovery organization,...
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Avoid smoking for heart health; here are some tips to help you quit
By Dr. Peter Haigh University of Kentucky We have known for decades that smoking tobacco is bad for your health. Quitting smoking is probably the single best change a person...