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A package of buprenorphine, one medication used to treat opioid use disorder, and a naloxone nasal spray. UK Photo | Pete Comparoni RICHMOND, Ky. (May 25, 2021) – The University of Kentucky’s $87 million HEALing Communities Study has partnered with Voices of Hope and the Madison County Detention Center to increase access to medication for opioid use disorder for people who are being released from the jail. The Madison County Detention Center, under the leadership of Jailer Steve Tussey, det...

Video by Jasmine Webb. LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 10, 2021) – Early mornings. Late nights. A full-time job, full class load, and two young sons at home all day throughout the pandemic. The road to earning her bachelor’s degree hasn’t been easy. But this week, University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences undergrad Brooke Poe will finally see the fruits of her labor pay off as she officially earns her bachelor’s degree in clinical leadership and management. Led by Assistant Professor Sarah ...

This is a "Significant" Factor in Getting Dementia, New Study Shows Leah Groth © Provided by Eat This, Not That! Woman suffering from stress or a headache grimacing in pain as she holds the back of her neck with her other hand to her temple. An estimated 5 million adults are living with dementia, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and by 2060 that number is predicted to multiply to almost 14 million. Dementia isnt a disease or illness itself, but a term used ...

Francesca Belouad, MA, is a Research Psychologist in GEB-SDGE. She is responsible for administrating interviews and overseeing clinical aspects of the NIMH Family Study. Francesca has been employed as a Research Psychologist at the NIMH since 2000, when she was recruited by Dennis Charney, MD, during the formation of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research Program. Prior to this, she held research positions at the Section on Development Psychology at the NIMH, Outpatient Psychiatry at the Wash...

A study that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to emphasise coffee’s importance in reducing Heart Failure (HF) risk is said to hold much promise in explaining pathways connecting dietary choices to the condition. The study draws on the power of machine learning to rank coffee consumption as important as age, blood pressure, heart rate, and weight in links to HF risk, unintentionally becoming the research focus. “The association between caffeine and heart failure ...

When Cayuga County Coroner Dr. Adam Duckett broke down the areas 24 overdose deaths last year by the drugs that were involved, he expected to see heroin at the top of the list. It wasnt. In fact, Duckett told The Citizen Monday, more of those 24 people had cocaine in their systems than the opioid at the forefront of the local drug epidemic of the last decade. But the reason for that is another drug, one that was also in the systems of most of the people who fatally overdosed after using cocaine...

Members of the support group Bourne Substance Free Coalition agree that the COVID-19 crisis has had a negative impact on their efforts at fighting addiction over the past year, but it has not stopped the group in its tracks. The group has stayed committed to its goals of helping people fighting addiction by providing assistance and resources. One of the coalition’s newest endeavors involves distribution of resource bags to people struggling with an addiction issue. The blue bags feature a ...

Members of the support group Bourne Substance Free Coalition agree that the COVID-19 crisis has had a negative impact on their efforts at fighting addiction over the past year, but it has not stopped the group in its tracks. The group has stayed committed to its goals of helping people fighting addiction by providing assistance and resources. One of the coalition’s newest endeavors involves distribution of resource bags to people struggling with an addiction issue. The blue bags feature a ...

NIH funds $900k grant for OUD study in Darke County Staff report As a Wave 1 participant, the Coalition for a Healthy Darke County, the county’s local health and wellness collaborative, is working with the National Institutes of Health’s HEALing Communities Study to identify key service areas where grant monies can make a difference in the lives of those with OUD, and ultimately, to decrease the number of opioid overdose deaths by 40 percent. For more information, see www.CoalitionDarkeCoun...