Category: DRUGS
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Local governments mulling ways to use opioid settlement funds
By Zacharie Lamb WKMS More than a year after local governments across Kentucky began receiving shares of the legal settlement with opioid manufacturers and distributors, several local leaders in far...
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Program for mothers and pregnant women with substance-use disorder gets grant to help more Black women get its services Freedom House
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern The Volunteers of America chapter that includes Kentucky will spend $123,000 over the next nine months to figure out how to get more Black women...
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Lee Co. harm-reduction chief says 80% of clients are homeless
By Stu Johnson, WEKU Homelessness is a reality in virtually every section of Kentucky. Although often thought of as an urban challenge, rural Kentucky also finds the plight of the...
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Coleman reappoints two members to state opioid commission
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Attorney General Russell Coleman has reappointed two members to the state opioid commission, thus not changing the balance of votes on the issue of...
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State accepting applications for medical-cannabis licensing lottery and prescribing authority; patient cards not available until Jan. 1
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Kentuckians can now begin applying for a cannabis business license, and medical providers can apply to the state Board of Medical Licensure and Board of Nursing...
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Some Ky. counties using settlement money to make new opioid-withdrawal treatment available to a small number of residents
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Three Kentucky counties are making a new treatment to reduce opioid-withdrawal symptoms available free to a few of their residents, using money from the...
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Health department director says she has work to do, to educate Attorney General Coleman about syringe exchanges
Kentucky Health News The director of a district health department with a syringe exchange has voiced disappointment to her local newspaper over Attorney General Russell Coleman’s opposition to the exchanges....
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Huge grant fails to reduce ODs by 40%; does show a 9% drop over four states, saving an estimated 483 lives, but few in Ky.
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A four-state, $350 million research grant that included Kentucky fell far short of its goal of reducing opioid overdose deaths by 40% over four...
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Coleman details $12 million in opioid grants, says his opposition to syringe exchanges is greater if they don’t have one-to-one rule
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Attorney General Russell Coleman issued details Thursday of more than $12 million in grants from the state’s opioid settlements for prevention, enforcement, treatment and...
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Letcher County backs off its plan to spend $125,000 in opioid-settlement money on an experimental therapy by Isaiah House
By Sam Adams The Mountain Eagle The Letcher County Fiscal Court has reversed itself — at least for now — on whether it will give $125,000 of its opioid settlement...