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Kentucky Launching Opioid Addiction Help Line

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Kentucky is spending $500,000 dollars to create a telephone helpline for people with opioid addiction.

Starting Dec. 1, Kentucky residents can call 833-8KY-HELP, or 833-859-4357. Staffers will connect callers to social workers and other programs to help with addiction.

 

The line will be staffed from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Any other time, people can leave a message. The call center will have a staff of six, plus a supervisor.

 

Governor Matt Bevin said he is in talks with a corporation to donate another $500,000 to to keep the help line open 24/7. More than 1,400 people died from drug overdoses in Kentucky last year. Most of those were from opioids.

 

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