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As heroin use increases in Kentucky, new report shows its strong connections to abusers of prescription pain medicines
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4:17 PM
Kentucky's law-enforcement agences, policymakers and public-health advocates have taken serious measures to curb the state's rampant...
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Beshear, Stumbo credit law for reducing prescription-drug deaths, but reduction was far outnumbered by rise in heroin fatalities
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2:49 PM
Deaths from prescription-drug abuse in Kentucky declined last year for the first time in a decade, and top state officials are crediting a l...
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As prescription painkillers become harder to get and abuse, heroin replaces them in Eastern and Southern Kentucky
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7:04 PM
Heroin use, which has been a problem in Northern and then Central Kentucky after the state began cracking down on prescription painkillers l...
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Cheaper heroin showing up in Eastern Kentucky as crackdown on pain pills makes that trade less attractive
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7:14 AM
About 60 grams of heroin, worth about $8,000. (AP photo) It was only few months ago that Northern Kentucky law enforcement officers and subs...
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N. Ky. Chamber to ask state for more funding to fight heroin; London police make first known heroin trafficking arrests there
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1:15 PM
The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce is planning to lobby the state for more funding for heroin treatment after receiving reports fro...
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Northern Kentucky group forms in response to what some consider 'epidemic' of heroin use in their area
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10:11 AM
Ashel Kruetzkamp with a vial of Naloxone HCl, used to treat those who overdose on heroin. (Photo by Patrick Reddy) Heroin use is reaching s...
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