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Patients wait for substance abuse treatment.Credit Rebecca Kieger/Ohio Valley ReSourceEdit | RemoveAt a town hall event in Logan, Ohio, Kelly Taulbee…

Researchers from the University of Kentucky Center on Drug and Alcohol Research have received an $87 million federal grant to study how to prevent…

New federal data show the Ohio Valley again led the nation in rate of fatal drug overdoses last year. The data confirm what local officials have reported:…

Health officials in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia say the number of overdose deaths related to the opioid crisis continued to rise in 2017 as state…

Acting Health And Human Services Secretary Eric Hargan signed an order Friday to extend the public health emergency for 90 days. A post on the agency’s…

Imagine living and working somewhere designed to fit a couple hundred people. Now picture that same space crammed with twice that number. Madison County,…

Another community in south central Kentucky has signed off on the creation of a needle exchange for drug abusers. In a 4-3 vote, the Barren County Fiscal…

EDITOR's NOTE: This story has been updated to include new information regarding the timing of an emergency declaration.Many lawmakers from the Ohio Valley…

It’s been nearly one month since President Trump told a group of reporters he was declaring the opioid crisis a national emergency.“The opioid crisis is…

Prosecutors from across Kentucky were briefed Thursday on the state’s heroin problem through the eyes of representatives of crime lab, medical, drug…