Treatment, Recovery & Prevention
Kentucky Lantern: Opioid settlement payouts to localities made public for the first time
Virginia Chamber: Addiction Recovery Care lays the groundwork for improving behavioral health outcomes in Virginia
Bottom Line: New reports demonstrate the need for Kentucky leaders to continue fight against substance use disorder crisis
Harvard Health: Opioid abuse and deaths among older adults have skyrocketed. Could you have a problem and not know it?
Kentucky Today: Community-Based Organizations Receive Additional $1.0 Million in Funding from the Foundation
Lexington Herald-Leader: This KY commission will choose whether or not to fund research of experimental psychedelic
WKYT: Kentucky sees decline in overdose deaths in 2022; some areas still seeing issues
WVLT: Kentucky governor points to advances in fight against drug addiction
WAVE: Addiction Recovery Care gives insight into how to prevent fatal overdoses
LINK NKY: Drug deaths drop in Kentucky, but fentanyl still rages
WBKO: Nearly $2.4 billion going to fight drug abuse in Kentucky
WBKO: ARC working to de-stigmatize addiction treatment
Public Policy & Legislation
Federal Legislation
- H.R. 238 – Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment Act of 2023
- H.R.1359 – Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act
- H.R. 3355 – Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program Reauthorization Act of 2023
- H.R.3333 – FEND Off Fentanyl Act
- S.1235 – Bruce’s Law
- S.606 – Protecting Americans from Dangerous Opioids Act
- S.1532 – Alan T. Shao II Fentanyl Public Health Emergency and Overdose Prevention Act
WDKY: More than 1 million people are dropped from Medicaid as states start a post-pandemic purge of rolls
Energy & Commerce Committee Release: Health Subcommittee Chair Guthrie Opening Statement on the SUPPORT Act and the Opioid Crisis
Every Day Health: Minorities Hit Hardest by Alcohol-Related Deaths During First Years of COVID-19
Upcoming Events
Camp UNITE 2023 – July 11-14, 2022 – University of Pikeville
Rx and Illicit Drug Summit – April 1-4, 2024 – Atlanta, Georgia