Category: DRUGS
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Hardin, McCracken and Scott counties are certified as Recovery Ready Communities, bringing Kentucky’s total to 10
Kentucky Health News Three more counties have been designated as Recovery Ready Communities for their commitment to providing residents with access to addiction treatment and recovery support and removing barriers...
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Ky. and Okla. lead the nation in adult daily vapers. With additional metrics, Forbes ranks Ky. as the No. 2 vaping state, behind Tenn.
Kentucky Health News Kentucky adults use electronic cigarettes daily at the highest rate in the nation, equaled only by Oklahoma, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and...
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After at least 3 deaths in 7 months, weekly in small Western Ky. county alerts its readers to the dangers and details of fentanyl
Kentucky Health News After three fentanyl overdoses since June in Crittenden County, the first recorded in the county of 9,000 people, and another death in which fentanyl could have been...
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FDA hasn’t OKd ketamine for mental health, so treatments vary widely, creating a new ‘wild West’ and generating big markups
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Impact of cannabis use during pregnancy is the focus of UK Cannabis Center’s next online seminar, to be held Feb. 26
The University of Kentucky Cannabis Center is sponsoring an online seminar titled “Cannabis Use During Pregnancy: Research from Policy to Practice” on Feb. 26. The seminar will be held via...
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Seven mobile crisis-response grants allow ‘better treatment, a lot quicker’ for people undergoing mental-health crises
Kentucky Health News Seven local-government organizations are getting grants to start community crisis co-response programs, which form partnerships between behavioral-health professionals, law enforcement or other first responders and local governments...
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First Opioid Abatement Settlement Commission meeting under new leader draws big crowd, largely to support ibogaine study
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Nearly 130 people attended the first Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission meeting under the group’s new executive director, by all indications in support of the...
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Third annual Harlan County Drug Summit looks at ways to address addiction, with a focus on prevention
Nearly 200 people attended the third annual Harlan County Drug Summit on Thursday, Jan. 11, to hear a message largely focused on prevention, Chandler Wilcox reports for Hazard’s WYMT. “We have a lot...
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Beshear wants 15 medical conditions added to medical-cannabis law, but key legislators say now isn’t the time to do that
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear wants 15 more health conditions to be added to the list of qualifying conditions in the state’s legislatively authorized medical-marijuana program,...
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Addiction Recovery Care urges Kentuckians with substance-use disorder to seek care, saying January is one of its busiest months
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With the start of a new year, Addiction Recovery Care is encouraging individuals struggling with substance-use disorder to seek addiction care, noting that January...