Tag: drug abuse
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Veteran journalist sees hope in residential drug recovery program
“Kentucky’s struggle to help its citizens who suffer from dependency on drugs and alcohol recently reached an impressive goal when leaders of that struggle who are prominent in different political...
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Counties not allowed to ban pain clinics, attorney general says
County governments are not allowed to prevent pain-management clinics from opening within their limits, the state attorney general’s office has found. “Because such local ordinances infringe on the state’s right...
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Fla. governor agrees to implement prescription drug monitoring
“Florida Gov. Rick Scott reversed course Thursday and said he will allow a prescription drug monitoring program that Kentucky officials have demanded to help block the flow of illegal prescription...
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State gives six residential substance-abuse centers federal money for operating costs
First Lady Jane Beshear Tuesday presented $1.5 million in funding for six Recovery Kentucky substance-abuse centers, further securing the program started in Republican Ernie Fletcher’s administration, and attending a ceremonial...
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More N. Ky. kids taken from homes due to parents’ drug use
An increasing number of children in Greater Cincinnati are being taken from their homes because their parents are drug users. In Campbell County, Kentucky, 68 children were removed from their...
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Meds-for-meth bill backer has last-ditch change to exempt liquids and gelcaps, which police expert calls inefficient feedstocks
Jensen Hoping to gain the few votes he needs, the sponsor of the bill that would require prescriptions for three popular decongestants said today that he will draft an amendment...
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Ky. officials ramp up criticism of plan to cancel Florida drug monitoring; U.S. drug czar says Fla. governor may lack facts
Kentucky officials continue to rail against Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to cancel his state’s prescription-drug monitoring program, a move they argue would keep the pipeline open for Kentucky dealers who...
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Drug czar coming to Kentucky to look at prescription pill abuse
The White House drug czar will visit Kentucky next week to investigate prescription pill abuse, a problem he called “heartbreaking.” In a four-day tour, Gil Kerlikowske, President Obama’s chief advisor...
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As meds-for-meth bill languishes, some seek compromise, but bill’s sponsor says proposals would render it ineffective
By Al Cross and Tara Kaprowy Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues As the bill to require prescriptions for three widely used decongestants remains short of votes to pass...
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Systems that track pseudoephedrine sales do not necessarily curb meth making, experiences of Ky. and other states show
Systems that track the sale of the key ingredient used to make methamphetamine have not decreased the manufacture of the highly addictive drug, according to an analysis by The Associated...