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Fentanyl is Driving Overdose Deaths in Kentucky and Continuing to Increase

May 7, 2024

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Dasha Kolyaskina

As authorities cracked down on prescription opioids and then on heroin, the black market offered up fentanyl as a substitute. Fentanyl – a synthetic opioid up to 50 times as strong as heroin and 100 times as strong as morphine – was developed for use as an anesthetic i...

Kentucky Overdose Deaths Still Increasing, but Rate of Increase is Slowing

August 21, 2024

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Jordan Harris

There has been a great deal of analysis in the national media in the last week about the most recent provisional overdose death count released by the CDC. For the nation as a whole, it found a year over year increase of 6.6%. For Kentucky, provisional data shows that w...

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