Tag: needle exchanges
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Health Journalism Workshop offers a host of health-care story ideas from officials, health-care providers, journalists
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky journalists were challenged by policy makers, health experts and health journalists to write about Kentucky’s health issues and were presented with many story...
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As heroin problem spreads, focus is on treatment and community efforts to help addicts; Needle exchanges? Not so much
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Heroin is a growing concern for many Kentucky communities, with much of the discussion around prevention and rehabilitation for addicts over incarceration as the...
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Researchers ask Congress to lift ban on needle-exchange funding
Because of dirty needles, Kentucky has the highest rate of hepatitis C in the nation, and public officials say it will get worse. The state legislature recently allowed localities to...
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Louisville opens first needle exchange in state; officials predict rural counties will be slow to follow
Photo by Scott Utterback, The Courier-Journal Louisville Metro Public Health & Wellness opened its mobile needle-exchange program Wednesday, June 10, making Louisville the first place in Kentucky to implement such...
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Hepatitis C is on the rise in Appalachian Kentucky, and dirty needles are to blame; officials predict surge of HIV to follow
Kentucky has the highest rate of acute hepatitis C in the nation and public officials predict it could get much worse, Claire Galofaro and Dylan Lovan report for the Kentucky...