Feds ease access to most common drug against opioid addiction
Photo from thefix.com By Danielle Ray and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Federal drug rules will soon loosen so that doctors can accommodate nearly triple the number of patients they...
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Photo from thefix.com By Danielle Ray and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Federal drug rules will soon loosen so that doctors can accommodate nearly triple the number of patients they...
Former Dr. Fred Gott of Bowling Green was arrested.(Photo: Miranda Pederson, Bowling Green Daily News) Twelve people in the western half of Kentucky, including three doctors, have been charged with Medicaid...
Gov. Steve Beshear told attendees at the 2014 National Prescription Drug Abuse Summit in Atlanta on Wednesday about the progress Kentucky has made in the last two years in its...
Heroin use, which has been a problem in Northern and then Central Kentucky after the state began cracking down on prescription painkillers last year, has been spreading to the Southern...
UPDATE, Jan. 7: Medicare proposes giving itself authority to ban abusive prescribers, ProPublica reports. By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News An examination of the Medicare Part D program that Congress...
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The prescription-painkiller epidemic stems partly from an evolution of society’s views toward pain and how to deal with it, said experts at “The Different...
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Kentucky All-Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting system, the key to fighting doctor-shopping for painkillers in the state, has undergone several changes since the legislature...
Kentucky Youth Advocates has added four new child welfare indicators to the agency’s Kids Count Data Center. These four new indicators provide Kentuckians and those who report on them with...
Dr. Kathy Nieder, with patient charts(C-J photo by Michael Clevenger) Dr. Ralph Alvarado’s medical practice in Winchester has prescribed controlled substances to 1,800 patients in Central Kentucky over the past three...
Bath salts, which mimic the effects of drugs like cocaineand speed. The Patriot-News photo by Chris Knight. Though legislators across the country, including Kentucky, have passed laws to ban synthetic...