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By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state Office of Drug Control Policy is offering competitive grants to local boards of the Agency for Substance Abuse Policy for them to use toward...
Partly because it’s much cheaper than pain pills, heroin is “quickly making inroads in Southern and Eastern Kentucky,” the head of an anti-drug organization told Laura Ungar of The Courier-Journal....
Map from The Guardian highlights Wolfe County. Amanda Holpuch of The Guardian took a trip to Wolfe County, perhaps the U.S. county most vulnerable to an outbreak of HIV or...