By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky hospital trauma team has adopted a protocol to treat acute pain that they hope will be adopted by the entire...
Kentucky’s expanded Medicaid program covered approximately 11,000 substance-use treatment services in the second quarter of 2016, a huge increase from the 1,500 services from January through March 2014, the first...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Officials and health advocates touted the Obama administration’s work in addressing substance-use disorders at a forum Nov. 29, and also advocated for the passage...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News SLADE, Ky. — The executive director of the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy said Friday that his office is working on a legislative...
Though the United States’ addiction problem and overdose deaths has sparked national attention, the epidemic in Kentucky dates back to the late 1990s. Geoff Wilson, a Lexington-based substance abuse counselor, said...
Kentuckians are encouraged to turn in any unused or expired prescription drugs Saturday, Oct. 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. as part of National Drug Take-Back. The service is...
A Republican recently elected to the state House has filed legislation that would allow physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances, something they can do in every other state beginning in...
University of Kentucky video Leaders of the National Institutes of Health spent Thursday in Hazard with Fifth District U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers and local health leaders to examine efforts...
The opioid epidemic seems to be focused on heroin, but that’s only part of the picture, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield President Deb Moessner writes in an op-ed for...
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch attended events in Lexington and Richmond this week as part of the first national Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week, Bill Estep reports for...