Category: DRUGS
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House sends Senate a budget bill with many provisions dealing with health issues, several with less than Beshear proposed
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...
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Kentucky is one of seven states to get grants from Bloomberg to fight the record-setting epidemic of opioid overdoses
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...
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Fewer than 8% of overdose survivors are given or prescribed drugs that can block overdose and help them fight addiction
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...
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New toolkit aims to help rural organizations create medication-assisted therapy programs for opioid misuse
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...
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Kentucky program, first of its kind in the nation, makes it less risky for employers to hire people with substance-use disorder
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 —...
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Isolation, closures and lethal drug supply likely contributed to the big increase in drug overdose deaths in Kentucky last year
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...
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Former governor’s nonprofit gets another big federal grant for its residential housing program to treat substance-use disorder
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...
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Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 49% in 2020; fentanyl and methamphetamine remained the biggest drivers of death
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...
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National settlement would bring Kentucky and its local governments $460 million over 18 years to fight opioid epidemic
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...
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McConnell, others want to keep ban on all fentanyl analogues; UK professor and allies object to mandatory minimum sentences
Alex Elswick —– Fentanyl, the latest scourge of the opioid epidemic, is a synthetic. That makes it relatively easy to make different versions, called analogues, with slightly different chemical formulas....