Kentucky Justice Secretary J. Michael Brown Warns Students Against Prescription Drug Abuse

Kentucky Justice Secretary J. Michael Brown warns students against prescription drug abuse – Kentucky Justice Secretary J. Michael Brown warns students at Frankfort’s Western Hills High School against prescription drug abuse

Beshear signs synthetic drug bill

Filed under: Drug Abuse Kentucky

By CHAD ABSHIRE Saying the law would help “Kentucky stay a step ahead of backyard chemists who change the formulas of banned drugs to keep them legal,” Gov. Steve Beshear yesterday signed House Bill 481, which bans whole classes of synthetic drugs.
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Derek Boogaard prescribed thousands of pills by team doctors

Filed under: Drug Abuse Kentucky

Boogaard, who dealt with a wide range of injuries during five seasons with the Minnesota Wild and one with the New York Rangers, entered the league's substance abuse program in 2009. The prescriptions came before and after that, and included sleeping …
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Attorney General Conway Announces Settlement with Sanofi-Aventis US LLC

Filed under: Drug Abuse Kentucky

The AWP lawsuits filed by the Attorney General allege that defendant drug companies published false, inflated and deceptive AWPs for their drugs, which did not bear any relationship to the prices actually charged. “Because the Kentucky Medicaid program …
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