Category: DRUGS
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Walgreens to pay state $102 million to settle opioid claims
Attorney General Daniel Cameron said Wednesday that Walgreens and its subsidiaries hves agreed to pay a $102 million settlement to the state for business practices that worsened the opioid epidemic. Walgreens...
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Telehealth helps people stay in drug treatment, UK study finds
By Rachel Evans and Elizabeth Chapin University of Kentucky Drug users getting buprenorphine treatment for opioid-use disorder through telehealth are slightly more likely to stay in treatment longer than those...
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Kentucky health insurers give $750,000 to Louisville public-benefit firm to improve care for opioid-exposed infants in rural Kentucky
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Association of Health Plans, the trade group for companies selling health insurance in Kentucky, has given $750,000 to Nascend, a Louisvile-based public-benefit...
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Most Kentucky adults favor requiring licenses to sell tobacco and vape products, and revoking licenses of repeat sellers to minors
Most Kentucky adults support the idea of licensing retail stores to sell tobacco and electronic-cigarette products, and revoking the licenses of repeat offenders who sell the products to minors, according...
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UK will study the effects of newly prevalent drug xylazine (‘tranq’)
By Elizabeth Chapin University of Kentucky Two University of Kentucky researchers have received a $2.65 million federal grant to study how the brain is changed by the mixture of fentanyl...
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Report: Big political giver boosted stake in psychedelic drug treatment research implicitly endorsed by Cameron, then funded anti-Beshear ads
Kentucky Health News Around the time Attorney General Daniel Cameron implicitly endorsed using 5 percent of the state’s opioid settlements to fund research to win federal approval of a psychedelic...
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Second round of state grants from settlements with opioid makers and distributors, totaling nearly $14 million, go to 34 organizations
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced the latest round of funding from the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission on Monday, with 34 organizations set to...
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Survey of 52 high-school students in Ky. hears calls for support of parents, not just students, when tackling substance-use problem
Kentucky Health News Kentucky high-school students in a recent study about substance abuse and its prevention offered some pointed advice about why their peers turn to substances, and said it’s...
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At opioid panel’s final hearing, Ben Chandler leads endorsers of funding research into psychedelic drug as treatment for addiction
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Twenty-three people spoke in favor of funding the development of an opioid-use disorder treatment using the psychedelic drug ibogaine with some of the state’s...
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Kentucky Opioid Symposium will be held Oct. 9-10 in Lexington
Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission will host what it calls its inaugural opioid symposium Oct. 9 and 10 in Lexington. The two-day conference will feature presentations...