Tag: General Assembly
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‘Pill mills’ proliferating in Ky.; legislators plan countermeasures
Suspected “pill mills” that feed Kentucky’s “epidemic of prescription-drug abuse” have proliferated in the last two years, and “not just in Eastern Kentucky, where the problem was once most prominent,”...
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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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State officials step up efforts against prescription drug abuse, targeting doctors
By Tara Kaprowy and Al Cross Kentucky Health News LEXINGTON — Targeting what Gov. Steve Beshear called “drug dealers in white coats” is the goal of a new effort against...
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Second death in five years raises questions about placement of mentally ill Kentuckians in personal-care homes
The second death in five years of a mentally ill person who has walked out of a personal care home has “prompted advocates for the brain injured and the mentally...
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Some worry that patient care will get shortchanged as Kentucky Medicaid moves to managed care
While moving Kentucky’s Medicaid patients to managed care for will likely reduce costs to the taxpayers, patient care shouldn’t be shortchaged in the effort to save a buck, Deb McGrath...
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Teens are misinformed about risks of tanning beds, and are not being warned at salons
With swimsuit season just around the corner, the American Academy of Dermatology has found that more than 40 percent of people who tan have never heard from tanning salon employees...
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Legislators need to help cities tackle pill abuse, mayor says
Winchester’s mayor is displeased with the Kentucky attorney general’s recent finding that local governments do not have the right to ban pain clinics within their borders. “The opinion carries no...
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Beshear will use line-item veto on Medicaid bill to remove mandatory cuts in other state programs and school funding
Democrats appear to have prevailed in the State Capitol battle over the budget and Medicaid. (Update, March 25: Beshear issued the vetoes.) After the Republican-controlled Senate passed a budget fix...
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Near-unanimous House passes Medicaid plan; Senate mum
By an overwhelming margin of 94-4, the state House today passed a bipartisan bill to fix the state Medicaid budget, again putting the ball in the court of the Republicans...
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New law on diabetes educators is only one of its kind in U.S.
The new Kentucky law requiring that diabetes educators be licensed is the only one of its kind in the country. The American Association of Diabetes Educators says the law will...