Tag: needle exchanges
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More than 100 at SOAR Substance Abuse Roundtable committed to work on prevention and treatment efforts in region
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More than 100 people attended the Shaping Our Appalachian Region Substance Abuse Roundtable April 7 to learn about current research and emerging opportunities associated...
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Kenton County’s approval of a needle exchange inches Northern Kentucky, hit the hardest by heroin, toward getting one
The Kenton County Fiscal Court unanimously approved a mobile needle exchange program March 29, which moves the City of Covington’s needle exchange program one step closer to fruition, Terry DeMio...
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Boyd, Clark counties approve needle exchanges; Boyd’s is a limited, one-for one; Covington’s proposed limits draw objections
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Clark and Boyd counties are the ninth and 10th Kentucky counties to approve a needle-exchange program, and Madison and Anderson counties are talking about it....
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Bill to keep dirty needles out of landfills hijacked with amendment to require needle-exchange programs to be one-for-one
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A House bill to educate the public about how to safely dispose of hypodermic needles easily passed was hit with a surprise amendment that...
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Shelby County reporter tells story of what the heroin epidemic looks like in her county; it’s a problem in most of Kentucky
Submissions of samples with heroin have steadily increased since 2010 in the Kentucky State Police laboratory, going from 451 submissions in 2010 to 3,691 in 2015. Heroin ranks only behind...
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Grant is eighth county to approve needle exchange; op-ed calls for N. Ky. to take a vote; and Louisville opens its third site
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Grant County is the eighth county in the state to approve a needle-exchange program, nearly 11 months after the legislature paved the way to...
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Lifting of ban on federal funding for needle-exchange programs has the potential to help Kentucky fight disease, but not yet
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky’s top Republicans in Congress, played a key role in lifting a longstanding ban...
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Frankfort approves needle exchange; Northern Kentucky remains resistant though that’s where the heroin problem is worst
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Franklin County Health Department can now operate a needle exchange program in Frankfort, following a 3-2 vote by the Frankfort City Commission, Seth...
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Three more Kentucky counties, two of them rural, recently approved needle exchanges, making six counties with them
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Jessamine, Carter and Elliott counties are the latest Kentucky counties to approve needle exchange programs, joining Fayette (Lexington), Jefferson (Louisville) and Pendleton counties. The...
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Needle exchanges don’t have to involve exchanges of needles, attorney general’s opinion says
Users of needles don’t have to trade in used ones to get new ones from needle-exchange programs authorized by this year’s anti-heroin law, Attorney General Jack Conway said in a...