By Buddy Forbes and Jordan Mullins Published: Jul. 25, 2023 at 5:50 PM EDT PIKEVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) – A new addiction recovery outreach has recently opened in Pikeville and is working to change the model for addressing the issues. Protea Behavioral Health Counseling operates on a ‘barrier reduction’ model, which works to reintegrate its[Read More…]
Author: Kentucky Recovery News
Greenberg: Louisville will receive millions in funding to fight impact of opioid addiction
This money comes from legal settlements with opioid distributors, dispensers and manufacturers. Credit: Alyssa Newton, WHAS11 News Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg announces a new policy on seized firearms. They will be made inoperable before being sent to KSP. Author: Arianna Sergio LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Mayor Craig Greenberg announced the city of[Read More…]
Kentucky considers $42 million ibogaine study to tackle opioid crisis
The Bowling Green Daily News By Sarah Michels | [email protected] Jul 25, 2023 FRANKFORT — Jessica Blackburn grew up in Betsy Lane, an Eastern Kentucky town home to 650 people. She had a great childhood, she said, filled with love, friendship and community. She’s not the typical person you’d expect[Read More…]
Disrupting Addiction: A KET Forum
Annual drug overdose deaths in Kentucky fell for the first time since 2018. Renee Shaw talks with a panel of drug recovery advocates, survivors and providers about this finding and the work underway to ease the public health crisis of addiction.
PBS Kentucky Edition: From Addiction to Advocacy
His addiction changed the path of his life after graduating from law school.
ARC has partial opening for new center Saturday
By Josh Kelly | JULY 23, 2023 | 12:08 AM Addiction Recovery Care opened its West 2nd Street location, marking its first residential treatment program in Western Kentucky on Saturday. They will begin transitioning clients from other treatment centers to the Yellow Banks Recovery Center. The location on 3136 W 2nd[Read More…]
Former addict launches program in Kentucky to help others find sobriety
WILLISBURG, Ky. (LEX 18) — A decade ago, Jason Roop couldn’t imagine that he’d be sitting here, resplendent in a blazer and slacks and talking to a reporter about his life. Once a high school tennis star good enough to play in college, Roop’s life spiraled into a 17-year addiction.[Read More…]
KY commission hears from experts on promise of psychedelic to treat opioid addiction
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Karen Butcher, whose son died in 2020 of an opioid overdose, asked a panel of experts on Monday in Frankfort: If cost wasn’t a factor, why shouldn’t Kentucky explore the use of an illicit psychedelic drug as a treatment for opioid addiction?
Health: Providers still hesitate to prescribe buprenorphine for addiction, despite ‘X-waiver’ removal
By Lev Facher | July 21, 2023 Significant challenges remain before most American clinicians feel comfortable treating patients with buprenorphine, according to a new study. While the federal government’s recent moves to deregulate buprenorphine have led to a bump in new prescribers, it didn’t lead to a significant bump in overall prescribing volume. Many[Read More…]
Kentucky gets Medicaid OK to provide mobile behavioral health care
BY SARAH LADD | KENTUCKY TODAY Kentucky will join five other states in providing mobile Medicaid crisis intervention teams later this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Thursday. The centers approved Kentucky’s proposals for these services alongside California. Mobile teams allow behavioral health professionals to de-escalate people[Read More…]