Keep Kentucky Kids Safe Program, Benton MS, Marshall County, KY
Keep Kentucky Kids Safe program, Benton MS, Marshall County, KY – Kentucky Attorney General Conway’s Keep Kentucky Kids Safe prescription drug abuse presentation at Benton Middle School, Benton, Marshall County, KY
Delray Beach sweat lodge helps drug addicts
Filed under: Kentucky Drug Addiction
Some former drug addicts who seek a new approach to recovery are bathing in the heat of a Delray Beach sweat lodge, where they say Native American traditions are helping them heal and re-enter society. The lodge, where the temperature rises as high as …
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New Suggestions to Curb Painkiller Abuse
Filed under: Kentucky Drug Addiction
“An epidemic of prescription drug abuse is devastating American families and draining state and federal time, money and manpower,” said Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. “Law enforcement and health officials are …
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Providers See Rise in Heroin Abuse in Maine
Filed under: Kentucky Drug Addiction
"Simply limiting supply of one drug will only fuel the use of another," says Dr. Mark Publicker, an addiction specialist with the Mercy Recovery Center in Westbrook. … "We know there are limitations in Kentucky and Tennessee, in Connecticut, in Maine.
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Born Addicted: Growing Numbers of Newborns in Crisis
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For the past two years, the Courier-Journal has been investigating Kentucky's prescription drug abuse epidemic, with reporting by the C-J's medical writer Laura Ungar. Friday Laura joined us on Byline to talk about the latest installment in the series …
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