Category: DRUGS
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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...
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Drug-overdose stats would be a lot worse without naloxone
The statistics on drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky are bad, but they could be a lot worse if first responders didn’t save so many drug users with naloxone, a drug that...
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‘Drug dealer with a medical license’ gets 50 months in prison
A Simpson County doctor has been sentenced to four years and two months in federal prison after being convicted of 15 counts of improper prescribing to patients who died of...
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Secondhand smoke linked to school absences, ER visits and respiratory symptoms in teenagers; Ky. smoke-free policies lag
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News It’s long been established that exposure to secondhand smoke is harmful to babies and young children. Now a study shows that it’s bad for...
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Ky. making great strides in treating patients with hepatitis C, with harm-reduction programs and fewer restrictions on treatment
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health NewsEliminating hepatitis C in Kentucky and the rest of the nation will require universal screening and non-restricted access to treatment, and because new cases of the...
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Two Northern Kentucky police departments have hired social workers, the first in the state to do so; helps in drug fight
The Alexandria Police Department in Northern Kentucky was the first police department in the state to hire a full-time police social worker. It’s been so successful they are hiring another one and...
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Ashland Middle School students invent device to pick up needles, win $150,000 technology grant for school
A group of middle school students at Ashland Middle School were inspired to create a device to pick up used syringes after learning that first responders had only rubber gloves and tongs...
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Family that lost a member to overdose raises money for drug education, fosters youth group in Oldham County
An Oldham County family that lost a son and brother to a drug overdose has responded by fostering a drug-education program and a youth group, Amanda Manning reports for The Oldham Era. Mason...
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Sept. 5 continuing education event focuses on opioid recovery, solutions in NE Ky.; features Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland
The upcoming Northeast Kentucky Area Health Education Center continuing education event will feature Sam Quinones, author of the book Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic, which chronicles the rise of prescription...