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The chief federal prosecutor for the eastern half of Kentucky says his office is getting a new prosecutor dedicated to fighting fentanyl, the powerful opioid that was found in more...
Two Kentucky organizations have received $100,000 grants from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration that will be used to address two different health issues that plague our state: opioids...
Telling doctors that their patients have died from drug overdoses reduce the physicans’ prescribing of opioids, the San Diego County medical examiner’s office in California found when it sent such...
The statistics on drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky are bad, but they could be a lot worse if first responders didn’t save so many drug users with naloxone, a drug that...
A Simpson County doctor has been sentenced to four years and two months in federal prison after being convicted of 15 counts of improper prescribing to patients who died of...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News It’s long been established that exposure to secondhand smoke is harmful to babies and young children. Now a study shows that it’s bad for...
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health NewsEliminating hepatitis C in Kentucky and the rest of the nation will require universal screening and non-restricted access to treatment, and because new cases of the...
The Alexandria Police Department in Northern Kentucky was the first police department in the state to hire a full-time police social worker. It’s been so successful they are hiring another one and...
A group of middle school students at Ashland Middle School were inspired to create a device to pick up used syringes after learning that first responders had only rubber gloves and tongs...
An Oldham County family that lost a son and brother to a drug overdose has responded by fostering a drug-education program and a youth group, Amanda Manning reports for The Oldham Era. Mason...