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These stories are on the latest Eastern Standard: Lexington's Mayor Gorton on priorities such as fighting opioid addiction and creating an Ag-Tech…
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The latest edition of WEKU's signature current affairs program Eastern Standard features Stu Johnson's exit interview with departing Lexington Mayor Jim…
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Overdoses killed more than 70,000 Americans in 2017, the latest full-year count by the Centers for Disease Control. It’s the highest drug overdose death…
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State CapitolAttorney General Andy Beshear has filed a lawsuit against another painkiller manufacturer, saying that the company fueled Kentucky’s drug epidemic through…
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On Tuesday Jefferson County Public Schools, the DEA and the Mark Walhberg Foundation held a city-wide summit on opioids for 8th and 9th graders. WFPL’s…
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When Dr. Rahul Gupta started work as West Virginia’s chief health officer his state was already ground zero for the opioid epidemic, with some of the…
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After decades of addiction to heroin and prescription opioids, Wendy Crites finally made a clean break.“For the first time in my life I just wanted to be…
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What is the potential benefit of using marijuana as a medicine?That was a hotly-debated topic during one panel at day-long conference in Lexington Monday.…
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In a comprehensive new report on the opioid crisis, the U.S. surgeon general writes that stigma remains a major barrier to treatment and urges a more…
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This special edition of Eastern Standard focuses on Kentucky's opioid addiction crisis. Yes, it's a crisis with the Centers for Disease Control reporting…