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• Feb 3, 2021 This week on Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine we highlight UK PATHways, a comprehensive opioid maintenance treatment program for pregnant women recovering from addiction and how it has managed to adapt through the COVID-19 pandemic. Director Jason Joy says the program was born out of a necessity to serve a large population of prenatal patients coming to UK with substance use disorders. Listen

Listen PATHways program director Jason Joy and peer support specialist Marie Vice pose in front of UK's Polk-Dalton Clinic, home to the PATHways program. UK Photo | Mark Cornelison   From UK Now: After more than a decade of struggling with addiction, Fleming County resident Marie Vice found herself at a low point, taking herself to a local hospital in October 2015. She was pregnant, still actively using drugs, and suffering from extreme withdrawal. “The doctor came in and said, ‘You need to let me get you somewhere where they can take care of the baby,’” she said. “’Because you�...

of LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 8, 2021) – After more than a decade of struggling with addiction, Fleming County resident Marie Vice found herself at a low point, taking herself to a local hospital in October 2015. She was pregnant, still actively using drugs, and suffering from extreme withdrawal. “The doctor came in and said, ‘You need to let me get you somewhere where they can take care of the baby,’” she said. “’Because you’re about to lose him.’” Vice was transferred to the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital, where she remained for two weeks while physicians...