Tag: drug abuse
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Nurse practitioners endorse new plan to fight prescription drug abuse, ask to be on board that will recommend standards
UPDATE, Oct. 14: Gov. Steve Beshear’s executive order did not create a slot for advance-practice registered nurses on the advisory council, which will have representatives appointed by Beshear and nominated...
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Ky., Ohio, Tenn. and W.Va. join forces to fight prescription-drug abuse amid questions about use of Ky. system
Kentucky has formed a partnership with Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia to help fight prescription drug abuse, “even as questions linger over how well the state has used its own electronic monitoring...
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Stumbo asks for records pertaining to pain pill tracking efforts; Herald-Leader supports move
Update, Aug. 29: The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure may not be tracking the prescribing practices of the state’s doctors, but that’s because it can’t, asserts a past president of...
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Drug abuse, obesity are top two concerns for children’s health, poll finds
Childhood obesity and drug abuse are the top two worries for children. Those were the results of a University of Michigan poll that asked people to rate 23 different health...
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Kentucky and Ohio are now exchanging prescription data, but system needs more use by health-care providers and police
Kentucky and Ohio are now automatically exchanging data on prescription drugs, with a new electronic network called the Prescription Monitoring Information Exchange. PMIX links the Kentucky All- Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting...
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Parents should talk to children about drugs and alcohol often, and firmly, but spend more time listening
Talking about drugs and alcohol often, and when children are at a young age, are two of the best things parents can do to prevent substance abuse by teenagers. “As...
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Veteran journalist sees hope in residential drug recovery program
“Kentucky’s struggle to help its citizens who suffer from dependency on drugs and alcohol recently reached an impressive goal when leaders of that struggle who are prominent in different political...
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Counties not allowed to ban pain clinics, attorney general says
County governments are not allowed to prevent pain-management clinics from opening within their limits, the state attorney general’s office has found. “Because such local ordinances infringe on the state’s right...
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Fla. governor agrees to implement prescription drug monitoring
“Florida Gov. Rick Scott reversed course Thursday and said he will allow a prescription drug monitoring program that Kentucky officials have demanded to help block the flow of illegal prescription...