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The number of overdose deaths in Kentucky continues to rise and a new report shows it’s largely due to a powerful opioid drug that dealers are secretly…
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More than 1,200 people died of drug overdoses in Kentucky last year. Heroin accounted for 28 percent of those deaths, but state officials are most…
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Kentucky schools could provide another tool in the state’s fight against heroin. The pharmaceutical company AdaptPharma is donating the antidote Narcan,…
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An increased number of Kentuckians are affected by heroin abuse, according to a Kentucky Health Issues Poll released this week.The poll asked adult…
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Another southern Indiana county might declare a state of emergency over increasing rates of HIV and hepatitis C.Clark County, which is just across the…
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Indiana state health officials say they’re working to transfer more responsibility to local officials dealing with the response to the HIV outbreak in the…
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A drug that can reverse the effects of a heroin overdose will soon be available without a prescription in Kentucky.The state Board of Pharmacy’s emergency…
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New statistics indicate heroin-related overdose deaths declined in 2014 in three northern Kentucky counties hard hit by the drug epidemic.Citing the…
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The Barren River District Health Department in Bowling Green estimates they're a little over a month away from setting up their local needle exchange…