Tag: drug abuse
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Dangers of HIV and hepatitis from intravenous drug use reach far beyond addicts and families, threatening a wide swath of Ky.
The growing use of heroin and the abuse of prescription painkillers in Kentucky also mean that the state “is being ravaged by the diseases that follow in their wake: hepatitis...
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Potent fentanyl, mixed with heroin, drives 14.7 percent increase in fatal drug overdoses in Kentucky from 2014 to 2015
The number of drug-overdose fatalities in Kentucky rose almost 15 percent in 2015, driven by a 247 percent jump in deaths involving fentanyl, a highly potent opioid that some traffickers...
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Official praises needle exchanges and medication-assisted treatment for addiction: ‘Treatment works. Recovery is possible.’
Scott Hesseltine Scott Hesseltine, the new vice-president of addiction services at Louisville’s Seven Counties Services, talked on Kentucky Educational Television about needle exchanges and a new model of addiction treatment that combines medication...
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Kentuckians agree regionally on tobacco controls; poll shows wide differences among regions in impact of drug abuse
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News In a state that once had more tobacco farms than any other, Kentuckians in all regions of the state support policies that discourage use...
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WellCare provides twist-on naloxone nasal atomizers for free, encourages those who know addicts to have naloxone on hand
WellCare of Kentucky and the Kentucky Pharmacists Association have teamed up to provide 1000 twist-on naloxone nasal atomizers for free, in hopes of making it easier for people to administer...
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Kentucky is the only truly Appalachian state to have put a brake on fatal overdoses from narcotics
Kentucky is the only truly Appalachian state to have put a brake on fatal drug overdoses, report Rich Lord and Adam Smeltz of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as part of a series...
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Justice secretary, drug-policy chief and ex-health boss back needle exchanges but ‘political rhetoric’ can trump science
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News CORBIN, Ky. – Local officials and legislators continue to debate and sometimes reject needle exchanges, but two state officials and a former state health...
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Nine myths about opioid drug abuse
Do you think it’s a good idea to save your leftover pain pills to have “just in case” you might need one, or that heroin is primarily an inner-city problem?...
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At forum on opioid abuse in Corbin, people say they need more treatment services, community education and coalitions
Image from Lauren Osborne, WYMT-TV Mountain News By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News CORBIN, Ky. – After a day of learning and talking about opioid prevention, treatment and mobilization, people at a...
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Pike County judge orders release of documents in OxyContin case, including deposition of former president of family-owned firm
Sealed documents about marketing of OxyContin, which some experts say started the epidemic of prescription-drug abuse, will become public if the order of a Pike County judge is upheld. Circuit...