opioid epidemic

More than a year after localities across Kentucky began receiving shares of the state’s opioid settlement funding, several local leaders in far western Kentucky are still figuring out how best they can use those funds to tackle the opioid epidemic.

The commission will oversee a portion of the $483 million the state is set to receive as part of a multistate opioid settlement.

The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drug overdose death data show Kentucky saw a 57% increase between March 2020 and March 2021.

Four of the biggest American health companies have tentatively agreed to pay $26 billion to settle their opioid liability. Tax breaks could allow them to claw back $4 billion.

Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia will collectively receive roughly $45 million as part of settlement agreements announced Thursday resolving lawsuits…

An eastern Kentucky pharmacist, whose business reportedly at one point received and handled the most opioids per person per county in the nation, has…

The year: 2009. A Senator from Illinois named Barack Obama has just made history upon taking the presidential oath of office. The national economy is at a…

After years of leading the nation in overdose death rates, Ohio Valley communities are looking for new ways to deal with the addiction crisis. A national…

Kentucky’s incoming governor and attorney general promised a united front Monday to combat the state’s drug epidemic as they celebrated new recovery…

Attorney General Andy Beshear has filed a lawsuit against another painkiller manufacturer, saying that the company fueled Kentucky’s drug epidemic through…