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Though it’s considered by experts as the most important bill needed this year, the Senate failed to pass a measure that would crack down on so-called pill mills before the...
Sales of hydrocodone (the key ingredient of Vicodin, Norco and Lortab) and oxycodone (the main ingredient in OxyContin, Percocet and Percodan) skyrocketed in new parts of the country as the...
A bipartisan group of political leaders issued a call today “to pass a bill that will help the state battle one of its most significant threats – prescription drug abuse,”...
“State lawmakers gave new life Wednesday to two bills designed to tackle Kentucky’s problems with methamphetamine labs and prescription drug abuse,” John Cheves and Jack Brammer report for the Lexington...
Over the objections of the Kentucky Medical Association, a Senate committee today approved a bill that would “transfer oversight of the state’s prescription-monitoring system from the Cabinet for Health and...
Law enforcement agencies are dealing with yet another way drug seekers are trying to get their hands on prescriptions pills — through their pets. In McCracken County, Tonya Rolison, 46,...