Category: DRUGS
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Keynoter at harm-reduction summit says syringe exchange programs need to partner with drug users to be truly successful
Nearly 500 people attended the 2019 Harm Reduction Summit on April 9 in Northern Kentucky. (Photo by Melissa Patrick) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News COVINGTON, Ky. – Syringe exchange...
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Kentucky judges and court staff will be offered opportunities to learn more about addiction, recovery and treatment
Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. (Photo by Melissa Patrick) By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky will soon offer an educational program to its judges and court staff that will...
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Two activists in recovery say addiction doesn’t discriminate (one says recovery does), say it should be treated as a chronic disease
Alex Elswick and Ashley McCarty Dufour talked about their addiction, recovery and activism. (Photo by Melissa Patrick) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The shared message of two Kentuckians in...
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Erin Calipari’s research explores how women’s hormones may make them more vulnerable to addiction and relapse
Erin Calipari (Photo by Larry McCormack, The Tennessean) —– Erin Calipari is getting noticed, and no longer just because she’s the daughter of University of Kentuckycoach John Calipari. As a researcher at Vanderbilt...
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Addict in recovery resumes writing his column for Appalachian newspapers after relapsing and going into treatment
Phillip Lee’s book —– A recovering drug addict who writes a column for newspapers in Appalachian Kentucky and Tennessee, and published a book, has relapsed, gone back into treatment and resumed his column....
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Health advocates offer tips for getting reluctant local governments to approve syringe exchanges, or ‘harm reduction programs’
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky leads the nation in syringe exchanges for drug users, as a way to prevent the spread of disease, but local officials in some...
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Louisville health department offers fentanyl strips to safeguard drug users; fentanyl responsible for more than half of 2017 ODs
As a way to protect drug users from deadly fentanyl, Louisville’s health department has started passing out test strips, Beth Warren reports for the Louisville Courier Journal. Fentanyl was initially added to heroin,...
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Resolution to require study of response to hepatitis A outbreak, and recommendations to avoid a repeat, failed in the legislature
The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services won’t have to conduct a study of its response to the hepatitis A outbreak that has killed at least 52 in the state and...
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State health department funds mobile syringe exchange for Laurel, Whitley, Knox, Clay and Jackson counties
Five Eastern Kentucky counties will soon have a mobile syringe exchange to minimize the spread of infectious diseases and to help get people who are addicted to drugs into treatment,...
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Man who ran drug-treatment facilities in Ironton and Portsmouth, Ohio, is indicted on drug-trafficking charges
Graffiti under the U.S. Grant Bridge in Portsmouth, Ohio (Cincinnati Enquirer photo by Liz Dufour) —– The former operator of Ohio drug-treatment facilities just across the river from northeastern Kentucky was indicted Wednesday...