Category: DRUGS
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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...
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State judge dismisses constitutional challenge to anti-vaping law
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a 2024 law banning the sale of some vaping products. Wingate sided...
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Drug to reverse opioid overdoses is more available than it used to be; health official says stigma still exist around carrying it
By Shepherd Snyder, WEKU The annual Kentucky Drug Overdose Fatality Report says overdose deaths in 2023 dropped by 9.8 percent from the year prior; 2022’s report showed a 5 percent decrease...
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Why millions are trying FDA-authorized alternatives to Big Pharma’s weight-loss drugs, exceedingly popular in Kentucky
By Arthur Allen KFF Health News Pharmacist Mark Mikhael has lost 50 pounds over the past 12 months. He no longer has diabetes and finds himself “at my ideal body...
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Local governments mulling ways to use opioid settlement funds
By Zacharie Lamb WKMS More than a year after local governments across Kentucky began receiving shares of the legal settlement with opioid manufacturers and distributors, several local leaders in far...
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Program for mothers and pregnant women with substance-use disorder gets grant to help more Black women get its services Freedom House
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern The Volunteers of America chapter that includes Kentucky will spend $123,000 over the next nine months to figure out how to get more Black women...
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Lee Co. harm-reduction chief says 80% of clients are homeless
By Stu Johnson, WEKU Homelessness is a reality in virtually every section of Kentucky. Although often thought of as an urban challenge, rural Kentucky also finds the plight of the...