Category: DRUGS
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Study: Kentucky had big increase in expanding distribution of lifesaving naloxone
By Elizabeth Chapin University of Kentucky New research shows that among the four states participating in the HEALing Communities Study, Kentucky communities achieved the greatest increase in the distribution of...
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Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission talks about 2025 grant priorities; AG Coleman appoints new member
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Members of the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission spent more than an hour drilling down on what their priorities are for the next round of...
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‘Instead of incarcerating disease, start treating disease:’ Kentuckians in recovery talk solutions
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Kentuckians in recovery say the state needs to better educate youth about addiction, digitize expungement for certain crimes and make harm reduction and community-based services...
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Attorney General Coleman sues Express Scripts for role in opioid crisis
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Attorney General Russell Coleman has sued Express Scripts, one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the nation, for what he called the company’s...
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11 groups get grants to launch harm-reduction projects that focus on racial equity and underserved communities
Kentucky Health News The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky announced the 11 recipients of its Shaping a Healthy and Inclusive Future Together grants to support ongoing harm reduction and racial...
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Kentucky Attorney General Coleman to launch $3.6 million youth drug prevention initiative
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission voted to fund a $3.6 million youth drug prevention initiative proposed by Attorney General Russell Coleman at the commission’s...
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Overdose Awareness Day offers opportunity to remind people to carry naloxone, opioid overdose reversal drug
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Each year, the last day of August is observed as International Overdose Awareness Day, to raise awareness of substance use disorder and overdoses, reduce...
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Opinion pieces for and against pharmacy benefit manager reforms in the news
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky General Assembly has worked for years to pass laws aimed at reining in the practices of pharmacy benefit managers, saying they create...
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Grant applications open to nonprofits that work with substance-use disorder and mental health in underserved communities
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The second round of Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky grants to expand services and programming for substance use recovery and mental heath support in...
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Lawmakers join Ky’s largest addiction treatment provider to oppose Medicaid payment cuts; centers trying to negotiate cuts
By Deborah Yetter and Tom Loftus Kentucky Lantern The state’s largest provider of drug and alcohol treatment is warning that looming cuts in Medicaid reimbursement to some providers could damage...