Tag: narcotics
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Young, white, lower-income and lesser-educated men have greatest increase in heroin addiction, study finds
Young, white men with lower education and income levels have experienced the greatest increase in heroin use and addiction, a study has found. Men 25 to 44 accounted for the...
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Medical examiner quits, then stays; was in dispute over resources, autopsy delays, hiring of former legislator to run office
Photo illustration from WKYT-TV Dr. William Ralston quit his job as the state’s chief medical examiner Friday “over frustrations involving personnel decisions and financial concerns for his office,” then agreed...
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House sends Senate bill to limit most potent painkiller prescriptions to three days, target traffickers of fentanyl
The state House has sent to the Senate a bill to put a three-day limit on prescriptions of high-potency painkillers, and increase penalties for the sale of fentanyl, in an...
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Legislature moving bills targeting fentanyl sales, shortening length of most opioid prescriptions to three days
The General Assembly is moving bills to increase penalties for the sale of fentanyl and put a three-day limit on prescriptions of other high-potency painkillers, in an effort to stem...
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Newspapers big and small tackle Kentucky’s opioid epidemic
The opioid epidemic, and the growing concern about stronger and more lethal painkillers, is getting plenty of coverage by major news outlets in Kentucky, one of the states most troubled...
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Pharmacies dispensing opioids thrive in Clay County, which leads Kentucky in doses of hydrocodone per person: 150 a year
Pharmacies dispensing opioids are thriving in an impoverished, coal-depressed county in Eastern Kentucky, Phil Galewitz reports for Kaiser Health News. In Clay County (Wikipedia map) the unemployment rate is 8.4 percent,...
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Drug-addicted babies more than twice as likely in Kentucky as in rest of nation, but few facilities accept addicted pregnant women
Amy Kalber of Louisville strokes her infant son, Marty Barkley,in a family gathering. Her first two children were born addicted,but the last two were born healthy during her recovery, describedby...
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New legislator from Northern Ky. hopes to apply background as nurse and state anti-drug officer to her work in General Assembly
A registered nurse who has been Northern Kentucky director for the state Office of Drug Control Policy is among the newly elected Republicans who now rule the state House. Kim...
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Substance-use treatment under Medicaid jumps, following expansion of program and increase in abuse of painkillers
Kentucky’s expanded Medicaid program covered approximately 11,000 substance-use treatment services in the second quarter of 2016, a huge increase from the 1,500 services from January through March 2014, the first...
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Drug overdoses in Northern Kentucky skyrocketed after arrival of super-potent fentanyl and carfantenil
Drug overdoses in Northern Kentucky have skyrocketed as the super-potent opioids fentanyl and carfantenil have been added to the heroin supply, Terry DeMio reports for The Cincinnati Enquirer. “In just...