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FDA wants to limit number of hydrocodone refills available without another doctor visit; approves pure version of drug
Kentucky ranks high in prescription drug abuse, but also is a national leader in efforts to fight it, state-by-state analysis says
Middle- and high-school students invited to create 30-second videos discouraging prescription drug abuse, win prizes in contest
Attorney General Jack Conway and his Keep Kentucky Safe partners invite Kentucky middle- and high-school students to compete in the annual P...
Fewer teens report using tobacco and abusing prescription drugs, but some attribute latter trend to increase in heroin use
Fighting prescription drug abuse? Save your spot for 'The Difference Faces of Substance Abuse' conference Jan. 28-29
Conway says ruling in his Oxycontin lawsuit means he will seek settlement of $100 million or more
FDA changes painkiller labels to warn expectant mothers, after 2,500% growth in number of Ky. babies born addicted to drugs
As heroin use increases in Kentucky, new report shows its strong connections to abusers of prescription pain medicines
Kentucky's law-enforcement agences, policymakers and public-health advocates have taken serious measures to curb the state's rampant...
Kentucky expands list of permanent locations for safe disposal of unneeded or expired prescription medications
Beshear, Stumbo credit law for reducing prescription-drug deaths, but reduction was far outnumbered by rise in heroin fatalities
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As prescription painkillers become harder to get and abuse, heroin replaces them in Eastern and Southern Kentucky
Kentucky, insurance companies are applying lessons learned in state's hurried transition to managed-care Medicaid
Foundation breaks down poll by region to show differences among Kentuckians' views on health topics and issues
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has released regional breakdowns of the Kentucky Health Issues Poll, conducted for it and the Health ...
Sick of all the bad facts about Kentucky's health? Here's encouraging news about oral health and drug treatment
Could Medicare Part D be an inadvertent enabler of prescription drug abuse?
Spring-clean the cabinet and dump your drugs Saturday, April 27
FDA requires OxyContin pills to be non-crushable to deter abuse
The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it would block generic, crushable versions of OxyContin from coming to the market an...
National Rx Drug Abuse Summit, a Kentucky product, seeks to make the nation face up to its problem
Most Kentucky adults don't know that drug overdose is the leading cause of death in the state, but those in the east do
Conway, other AGs ask FDA to require generic prescription pain pills to be abuse-resistant, tamper-resistant
Generic versions of popular pain relievers must be made harder to abuse, in order to curb prescription drug abuse that is epidemic in many s...
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding... -
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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Jennifer Tolbert After The Rural Blog published an item ( see below ) yesterday that said 80 percent of people who could benefit from insur... -
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health director Jeffrey Shuren MD JD voiced the opinion a few years ago that what FDA knows a...
