Poll provides more evidence that heroin use is increasing in Ky.; Chandler calls state's opioid epidemic 'truly shocking'

People in health care and law enforcement know that heroin use in Kentucky has increased, and that the state still has a big problem with pr...

National survey finds many Americans can't identify mental-health problems, and even some who do are unfamiliar with treatment

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Fewer than half of Americans recognize symptoms of anxiety, and many don't know what to do about...

Southern Ky. doctor charged with illegal prescriptions that feds say caused 3 deaths; another will serve a year on similar charges

One Southern Kentucky physician was sentenced this month to a year and a day in prison for illegally prescribing painkillers to five people,...

It's time to clean out your medicine cabinet for the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 29

Do you know the expiration dates of the medicines that have been piling up in your kitchen cabinet? If not, you might want to check those da...

More health bills pass as legislative session ends; one would require doctor's OK to play student athletes after concussions

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Several more health-related legislation passed in the final two days of the General Assembly's s...

Big drug bill heads to governor's desk; has harsher penalties and limits most prescriptions for acute pain to 3 days

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill that would limit most painkiller prescriptions to a three-day supply for acute pain, and chan...

Kentucky lawmakers have passed several health-related bills to deal with the opioid epidemic, and could pass several more

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – The 2017 General Assembly has passed several bills meant to put more "tools in...

Nurse practitioners ease doctor shortage, but will have to wait to get more authority to prescribe narcotics; opioid epidemic cited

Nurse practitioner Robin Szczapinski talks with her patient,  Harold Brashear Sr., at the Louisville Veterans Affairs Medical Center.  (Co...

House sends Senate bill to limit most potent painkiller prescriptions to three days, target traffickers of fentanyl

The state House has sent to the Senate a bill to put a three-day limit on prescriptions of high-potency painkillers, and increase penalties ...

Legislature moving bills targeting fentanyl sales, shortening length of most opioid prescriptions to three days

The General Assembly is moving bills to increase penalties for the sale of fentanyl and put a three-day limit on prescriptions of other high...

KET examines successful recoveries from opioid addiction, airs a forum to discuss Kentucky's opioid crisis

Kentucky Educational Television is airing "Journey to Recovery," a documentary that looks at Kentucky's opioid epidemic and e...