Category: DRUGS
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260 in Morehead hear speakers on opioid recovery and solutions to the epidemic: rebuilding communities and long-term treatment
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Treating opioid-use disorder as a chronic disease, finding local solutions and restoring communities were the overarching themes of an event in Morehead Sept. 5...
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At first SOAR summit session only about health, speakers agree local cooperation is needed to address Appalachia’s health issues
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News PIKEVILLE, Ky. – From top to bottom of the health-care system, speakers agreed local cooperation is essential to improving health in Appalachian Kentucky. They...
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Kentucky has very high rate of addicted mothers; rose by double-digit percentages early in decade, seemed to level off in 2015-16
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky has had a very high rate of opioid-use disorder among women delivering babies in hospitals, according to a study published...
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Paducah Mayor Brandi Harless and Dr. Van S. Breeding of Whitesburg named Healthy Kentucky Policy Champions
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has named two new Healthy Kentucky Policy Champions: Paducah Mayor Brandi Harless for her leadership in enacting a stronger city smoking ban, and Dr. Van Breeding...
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Senate bill, including McConnell items, would boost opioid fight
The U.S. Senate has passed an appropriations bill that “takes aim at the next wave of the opioid crisis: drug-fueled infections like HIV and hepatitis that plague Kentucky,” reports Laura...
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17 companies that were warned to stop packaging electronic-cigarette liquids to kids have stopped; FDA warns it’s still watching
All 17 companies that were warned in May to stop marketing their electronic cigarette liquids in packaging that resembled “kid-friendly food products,” like juice boxes, candy and cookies, have stopped...
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uhlenberg County doctor became addicted, but turned himself in, recovered, and now runs a drug-treatment clinic
Dr. Barry Hardison of Greenville runs a drug-treatment clinic in Muhlenberg County. “What Hardison has to say isn’t scientific,” Beth Warren of the Louisville Courier Journal reports. “It’s personal,” because...
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Justice Department gives Eastern District of Kentucky a new prosecutor to fight fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Duncan says
The chief federal prosecutor for the eastern half of Kentucky says his office is getting a new prosecutor dedicated to fighting fentanyl, the powerful opioid that was found in more...
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Federal grants of $100,000 each will create an opioid response network in Northeast Ky., fight childhood obesity in Western Ky.
Two Kentucky organizations have received $100,000 grants from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration that will be used to address two different health issues that plague our state: opioids...
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Telling doctors about their patients who die of overdoses makes some reduce their prescribing of opioids
Telling doctors that their patients have died from drug overdoses reduce the physicans’ prescribing of opioids, the San Diego County medical examiner’s office in California found when it sent such...