Attorney General announces historic opioid settlement to return $483 million to Commonwealth
The Kentucky Attorney General’s Office has announced a $26 billion settlement with opioid distributors and a manufacturer has been finalized…
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Art Maglinger: Personal responsibility needed in our jails, and our boardrooms, to beat opioid epidemic
When an inmate is brought into our jail, the process of taking personal responsibility for actions begins. First, the accused/convicted…
Marcus Jackson: Any funds received from opioid settlement should go to survivors of the epidemic
The opioid crisis continues to ravage Kentucky and other states throughout the country, and many state attorneys general have taken…
Mitch McConnell: Kentucky is turning the tide against substance abuse, but there’s more work ahead
Families in nearly every neighborhood of our country have suffered because of the opioid and substance abuse epidemic. For years,…
AP health editor Jonathan Fahey to give NKU Six@Six lecture on ‘What’s Ailing America?’
As the global health editor for The Associated Press, Jonathan Fahey oversees a team of journalists who cover medicine, public…
NKU’s Institute for Health Innovation gets $200k grant to expand opioid interventions in Owen County
Northern Kentucky University’s Institute for Health Innovation (IHI) had received a $200,000 federal grant to address the opioid epidemic in…
Opioid epidemic rampant in Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties, FindHelpNow.org can help
The national opioid overdose epidemic was declared a public health emergency in 2017, and the state of Kentucky continues to…
Attorney General Beshear calls on state lawmakers to create a permanent trust fund to battle addiction
The opioid epidemic continues to claim the lives of Kentuckians at a pace of nearly 30 a week. Attorney General…
KET to offer forum, ‘Disrupting the Opioid Epidemic;’ includes segment on Alexandria’s ‘angel’ program
Despite increasing state and federal attention to the problem of opioid addiction, deaths from overdoses continue to rise. In KET’s…
Robert Couch: Expanding access to naloxone will help save lives from drug overdoses
Expanding Access to Naloxone Will Help Save Lives In 2016, more than 1,400 Kentuckians died from drug overdoses. Sadly,…
Focus on Addiction Services Council: Aiming to be a single stop and phone call away to end addiction
The NKyTribune is partnering with Horizon Community Funds to focus on our region’s nonprofits. Here is one of the continuing…
Mitch McConnell: Why fighting opioid epidemic is necessary, and why we must fight back
The pain of the opioid epidemic continues to ravage communities across the country – especially here in Kentucky. For years,…
Trump’s top health official makes KY first stop after declaring opioid epidemic a public-health emergency
The day after declaring the opioid epidemic a national public-health emergency without allocating more money for it, President Trump’s top…
Cleveland Fed researchers say opioid epidemic could be large enough to have impact on labor force
Estimates of drug usage rates suggest the opioid epidemic could be large enough to have an impact on the labor…
Beshear hires lawyers to investigate, sue companies in opioid epidemic; Bevin says it’s premature
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear has hired four law firms to investigate and sue companies…
Author of opioid epidemic book Dreamland says it began with easy answers to tough questions
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The opioid epidemic began with a desire for “easy answers to complicated problems,” and…
Opioid epidemic taking its toll in Kentucky — and, yes, NKY counties are among the leaders
The nationwide opioid epidemic continued taking its lethal toll on the Commonwealth last year, driving up overdose deaths to unprecedented…