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New research shows the use of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl spreading fast in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Seattle. Chinese companies are routing the street drug through cartels in Mexico.
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Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky are increasing despite a drop in opioid prescriptions and heroin use.A new report from the Kentucky Office of Drug…
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Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear plans to announce an initiative to combat opioid overdoses and deaths.A statement from his office says he'll make…
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Now that the president has officially declared the opioid crisis a health emergency, many people are wondering how that will help in the nation’s hardest…
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Health officials say Tennessee saw a record number of overdose deaths in 2016.A state Department of Health news release Monday says 1,631 Tennesseans died…
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Prosecutors from across Kentucky were briefed Thursday on the state’s heroin problem through the eyes of representatives of crime lab, medical, drug…
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A presidential commission on the opioid crisis delivered its first report last week. Among the recommendations: better sharing of data. Health researchers…
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From 2010 to 2015, the number of new infections leaped nearly 300 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And researchers appear confident of the cause.
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Kentucky State Police have seized $1.5 million worth of heroin during a traffic stop in Lyon County Monday evening. State police stopped a tractor trailer…
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We’ve heard the statistics on the region’s heroin crisis, and how many have fallen into addiction. But one person’s story can tell a lot about what it…