Anecdotal reports suggest that injured teen athletes who are prescribed opioids are getting addicted, but research is conflicted

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Three high-school athletes, two playing football and one a swimmer, recently told NBC News  how they...

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Bevin adds a synthetic painkiller that is abused like heroin to the state's list of controlled substances

Image: foxnews.com Gov. Matt Bevin issued an emergency regulation Nov. 15 to place a synthetic painkiller called U-47700 on a controlled-sub...

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Ky. leads nation in rate of hepatitis C infections but new drugs to treat the disease are so expensive they're out of reach for most

Kentucky's rate of hepatitis C infections is seven times the national average, but expensive new drugs to treat the disease remain large...

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State drug-control policy office's legislative package will include putting overdose incidents into prescription database

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News SLADE, Ky. -- The executive director of the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy said Friday that...

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Kentucky behavioral health specialist says the state has been 'epicenter' of the nation's addiction epidemic for almost 20 years

Though the United States' addiction problem and overdose deaths has sparked national attention , the epidemic in Kentucky dates back to ...

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Feds add Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties to Ohio High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, citing threats from illegal drugs

Citing the magnitude of threats posed by illegal drugs, the Office of National Drug Control Policy has added Boone, Campbell and Kenton cou...

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