Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Operation UNITE uses comprehensive approach to keep Appalachian kids off drugs; experts say it could be replicated
Preventing kids from falling into addiction is a major goal for Operation UNITE, a nonprofit serving 32 counties in Eastern Kentucky — a region where the average age for first drug...
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Foundation plans to be more active against tobacco, since it’s the cause of so many of Kentucky’s health problems
As more Kentuckians favor a statewide smoking ban but the state legislature won’t even ban smoking at schools, the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky says it may become more active...
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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month; advocates honored, Green Dot training program gets national recognition
April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, so the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs held a ceremony in the...
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Kentucky’s last abortion clinic says Bevin is trying to shut it down, gets restraining order
Without even having a hearing, a federal judge has ordered the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services not to close Kentucky’s only remaining abortion clinic.”The order issued Friday by...
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After eight suicides in 2015, Carter County officials host a suicide-prevention forum; other communities are urged to do likewise
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky is one of the top 20 states for suicide, with nearly 700 Kentuckians taking their own lives each year, and 109 of the...