Category: DRUGS
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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...
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Cincinnati opens a pilot program to get immediate help for people who want help with addiction
Cincinnati has started a pilot program that lets people who are seeking addiction treatment get it by simply walking into one of their six participating health centers, Terry DeMio reports for the Cincinnati...
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UK welcomes 90 scholars from 50 nations for seminar on addiction; 3 events open to public Thur. and Fri. mornings
Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, will give the keynote plenary address at 8:30 a.m. Thursday. — Ninety Fulbright scholars from about 50 countries are gathering at the University of Kentucky today to attend...
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Tobacco-free-schools bill, hotline to report use of electronic cigarettes in schools are on track to pass before end of session
Bonnie Hackbarth of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky and Rep. Kim Moser presented the tobacco-free school bill (Photo by Melissa Patrick) — By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Two...
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Kentucky adults support syringe exchanges, 49% to 40%; among those who say they’re familiar with them, it’s 55% to 40%
Forty-nine percent of Kentucky adults continue to favor programs that allow people who use intravenous drugs to exchange used needles or syringes for sterile ones, while about 40 percent oppose...
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House committee strongly endorses medical marijuana, but time and the Senate stand in the way, in a session about to end
Rep. Jason Nemes, R-Louisville (LRC Public Information photo) — With a resounding 16-1 vote, a House committee approved a bill Wednesday to legalize medical marijuana in Kentucky, but it seems unlikely...
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Sponsor of bill to ban tobacco use at all public schools and events files last-ditch amendment to give districts 3 years to opt out of it
Rep. Kim Moser — This is an updated version of a story that was first published Saturday, March 2. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — The sponsor...
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Tobacco-free-school bill on life support; move afoot to make 21 legal age for e-cigs; some legislators want just one tobacco bill
Health advocates rallied at the state Capitol Feb. 28 to ask legislators to bring the tobacco-free school bill up for a vote, saying it has the votes to pass. (Photos...