Tag: prescription drug abuse
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Democratic ads accuse Republicans of supporting pill mills by voting against bill that all agree needs work
A bipartisan group of Kentucky lawmakers are looking ahead to fixing the much complained about “unintended consequences” of last spring’s hastily passed bill aimed at curbing prescription drug abuse. Still,...
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Board of Medical Licensure to amend pill-mill regulations to address concerns of doctors and some patients
The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure wants to change some of the more controversial requirements for urine screenings and digital monitoring in the state’s new prescription-drug regulations under the law...
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Governor lauds HB 1 for closing 10 of the state’s worst pain clinics, reducing the number of controlled-substance prescriptions
Gov. Steve Beshear gave credit this week to House Bill 1 for reducing the number of prescriptions written for frequently abused controlled substances and for closing the doors on 10...
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Covington police chief: New prescription-drug law has unintended consequence of encouraging pain pill addicts to use heroin, commit crimes
Black tar heroin Kentucky’s new prescription drug law may be having its desired effect of taking prescription painkillers off the streets, but could be forcing those very same addicts into...
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Soon-to-be published UK study begins to unravel why prescription pain-killing drug Tramadol is habit-forming
In an attempt to get closer to understanding the plague of prescription pain-killer abuse, a study by a team of University of Kentucky researchers has shed new light on the...
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Pill-mill bill causing problems for patients who have long-term prescriptions: expensive drug-screening tests
In July, Kentucky started making long-time holders of certain controlled-substances prescriptions submit to urine tests to determine if they were actually taking the drugs, rather than selling them. Because insurance companies...
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Life spans of the least educated are shrinking; steepest decline among white women, biggest gap among white men
Here’s some bad news for states like Kentucky, which are overwhelmingly white and have large shares of the population that did not graduate from high school: A new study “that...
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Doctor complaints about bill aimed at reducing prescription drug abuse largely based on misconceptions, health officials say
State health officials say doctors’ complaints about House Bill 1, which cracks down on pill mills and doctors who supply the illegal prescription pill trade, result from misunderstandings and misconceptions about the...
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In wake of pill-mill regulation fight, Beshear has chance to craft a medical licensing board more to his liking
Gov. Steve Beshear Gov. Steve Beshear is in a position to reshape a state medical board that has played a central and controversial role in recent efforts to crack down...
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Pikeville newspaper spotlights local doctors and pharmacists charged in prescription pain-pill epidemic, forecasts more action
The Appalachian News-Express, the thrice-weekly newspaper in Pikeville, has turned the spotlight on Pike County physicians and pharmacists who are aiding and abetting the abuse of prescription painkillers. We have...