Kentucky, insurance companies are applying lessons learned in state's hurried transition to managed-care Medicaid

Gov. Steve Beshear rushed to remove Medicaid into a modern bed called managed thought, hopeful the modern way would save money and further physical condition, but his administration didn't take stage to condition the soil, fertilize the ground or smear with oil the machinery in 2011. This month, managed-care company Kentucky Spirit proved to be the self-plucking bad prepare, fleeing the state as it cited unbearable expenses.

As prescription painkillers become harder to get and abuse, heroin replaces them in Eastern and Southern Kentucky

 

Heroin consume, which has been a glitch in Northern and followed by Central Kentucky in the same way as the state began cracking down on prescription painkillers after everything else day, has been dispersion to the Southern and Eastern parts of the state.

Beshear, Stumbo credit law for reducing prescription-drug deaths, but reduction was far outnumbered by rise in heroin fatalities

Deaths from prescription-drug abuse in Kentucky declined keep up time in support of the at the outset instant in a decade, and top state officials are crediting a law voted for by so as to year's General Assembly.

However, passage of the law has prompted many drug users to switch to heroin, and the escalation in heroin deaths (121) was much superior than the decline in prescription-drug dead (19).

Kentucky expands list of permanent locations for safe disposal of unneeded or expired prescription medications

Gov. Steve Beshear announced at present so as to Kentucky at the moment has 149 undeviating prescription drug disposal locations in 97 counties anywhere Kentuckians can safely dispose of unused or expired medications in order to help hold back the state's prescription drug abuse difficult.

“The personal property of prescription drug abuse are devastating to our families and our communities,” Beshear thought in a news announce. “Medications, when they are nix longer desirable in support of their prescribed purposes, be supposed to be disposed of suitably to reduce their hazard of being diverted and abused . . . "

When heroin service increases in Kentucky, new-fangled shot shows its strong relations to abusers of prescription pest medicines

Kentucky's law-enforcement agences, policymakers and public-health advocates allow taken serious measures to hold back the state's rampant prescription drug abuse difficult, and up to date state and countrywide news stories advise so as to the cut-rate supply of these painkillers, by the side of smallest amount the ones in a non-crushable form, has driven pill abusers to heroin. Now there's exploration to support this theory.

FDA changes painkiller labels to warn expectant mothers, after 2,500% growth in number of Ky

FDA changes painkiller labels to warn expectant mothers, after 2,500% growth in number of Ky

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday drug-safety labeling changes and new-fangled post-market study supplies in support of all extended-release and long-acting opioids, and Kentucky biased leaders applauded these measures to hold back prescription drug abuse.