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Thursday, March 1, 2018
FRANKFORT, Ky. (3/1/18) — Gov. Matt Bevin joined Kentucky State Police today to announce the launch of the Angel Initiative. The Angel Initiative encourages individuals suffering with a substance use disorder to visit a local KSP post for assistance with treatment.
The program encourages individuals seeking addiction treatment to visit a KSP post,
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Sunday, February 25, 2018
In an effort to encourage new treatments for opioid addiction, the Food and Drug Administration plans to begin permitting pharmaceutical companies to sell medications that help temper cravings, even if they don’t fully stop addiction.
The change is part of a wider effort to expand access to so-called medication-assisted treatment, or MAT. The agency
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Friday, February 16, 2018
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece for The Oberlin Review about the opioid epidemic, specifically in Ohio, and what could be done about it. Since then, there has been no significant reduction in opioid-related deaths in the state or in the nation. According to The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio’s drug overdose rate increased to 39 percent from
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Friday, February 9, 2018
In 2017, law enforcement in Ohio investigated more cases of human trafficking than in any year since the state has been keeping track. The 202 such cases statewide tracked by the state attorney general’s Human Trafficking Commission represent a 50 percent increase just from 2016.
The report showed that some who were trafficked were used for forced
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Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Near the end of last month, Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio) chaired a Senate hearing on his bombshell report on how deadly fentanyl is being shipped through the United States Postal Service into this country, with few obstacles.
During the hearing, the senator asked a simple question: “How many more people have to die before we keep this poison out of
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Thursday, January 25, 2018
American cities are slowly rallying around a new response to the opioid epidemic: safe spaces for using heroin.
The concept recently gained traction in Philadelphia, where officials announced this week that they intend to open such a space, known as a supervised drug consumption facility or safe injection site. These are places where people can use drugs
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