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Almost every day someone overdoses in Cayuga County on one of a variety of substances. Suicides have more than doubled since 2019. Fatal overdoses and completed suicides in women have

LEXINGTON More than two years into the University of Kentucky’s $87 million HEALing Communities Study (HCS) to address the opioid epidemic in Kentucky, it is possible to see the life-changing

More than two years into UK’s $87 million HEALing Communities Study to address the opioid epidemic in Kentucky, it is possible to see the life-changing impacts it has already made in the eight counties of the study’s first wave.

University of Kentucky experts on the front lines of the nation's opioid and addiction crises will share their work in the field of opioid use disorder research, treatment and prevention this week at the 2022 Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta April 18-22.

University of Kentucky experts on the front lines of the nation’s opioid and addiction crises will share their work in the field of opioid use disorder resear

UK experts on the front lines of the nation’s opioid and addiction crises will share their work in the field of opioid use disorder research, treatment and prevention this week at the 2022 Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit.

“The view that drug use is a moral choice is pervasive, pernicious and wrong. So are the corresponding beliefs about the addicted — that they are weak, selfish and dissolute;

A drive-thru medication takeback and drug awareness event will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, April 15, at the Auburn Elks Lodge No. 474, 314 State St., Auburn.

Photographer Gabi Deaton takes photos of the families and friends who have lost someone to addiction.

Dietary fiber is good for digestion, but new research strongly suggests it may also play an important role in dementia prevention.