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Operation UNITE will offer in-person Shoot Hoops Not Drugs basketball skills camps for youth throughout southern and eastern Kentucky on Monday, June 7 in…
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The Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE) has announced the award of four grants to support the establishment or expansion of four Recovery Community…
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In 2016, more than 190 Kentuckians died from a drug overdose caused by a powerful prescription opioid three times stronger than morphine.Many of those…
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Gov. Matt Bevin today joined Aetna officials and Northern Kentucky officials at the Boone County Sherriff’s Training Center to announce a partnership that…
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Attorney General Andy Beshear is taking an innovative step in the fight against what he believes is the single greatest threat to Kentucky – the state’s…
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The overdose of painkillers kills more than 60 Americans every day, and between 2005 and 2014 there was a 99 percent increase in the number of people…
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In 2015, more than 225 Kentuckians died from a drug overdose with Opana in their blood.Now that the makers of the opioid painkiller announced July 6 that…
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Gov. Matt Bevin is urging all Kentuckians to help beat back the opioid epidemic with a new public awareness campaign that highlights the dangers of opioid…
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A Fleming County man was sentenced Thursday (June 29) in U.S. District Court in connection with the August 2016, drug overdose death of an Augusta woman…
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Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear is taking another step in the fight against what he believes is the single greatest threat to Kentucky – the…
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The nationwide opioid epidemic continued taking its lethal toll on the Commonwealth last year, driving up overdose deaths to unprecedented levels with an…
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Gov. Matt Bevin today issued an emergency administrative regulation allowing Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) to take emergency…