Kentucky Officials Look for Local Heroin Solutions

Published April 18, 2014

Kentucky officials look for local heroin solutions
Dr. Bonnie Hedrick of the Northern Kentucky Agency for Drug Abuse Policy says her organization has already begun needle cleanup projects and is pushing local doctors to prescribe the antidote to addicts. Northern Kentucky Drug Strike Force Director …
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US judge blocks Mass. ban on painkiller
US District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel said in a five-page ruling that the Food and Drug Administration approved Zohydro after a screening process, in spite of the state's concerns that it could lead to opiate addictions, and so the state could not enact …
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County considers rising heroin use
In Ohio, a person dies from heroin every six hours— more than the rate of people killed by car accidents, said Lorrie Lewandowski, associate director of the Wood County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board. Heroin use didn't really …
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