Check out this great article about KyHRC's very own Lynne Huckleberry giving Narcan training and distribution to local bars. Everyone should be trained and carry Narcan! By Conroy Delouche Aug 30, 2022 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Businesses known for late-night fun are getting serious about saving lives. Tuesday night, employees at Baxter's 942 Bar & Grill in the Highlands got a lesson on how to administer Naloxone, or Narcan. Narcan ...

August 31st is International Overdose Awareness Day. This year, we will not just remember those we have lost, or call for awareness. We will turn our pain into power and demand no more drug war, no more overdose and no more harm in KY! Join VOCAL-KY and allied organizations and individuals calling for immediate and long-term policy changes that will save and improve lives in Louisville and across the state ...

The Two Simple Edicts of Successful Addiction Treatment Aug. 15, 2022 By Beth Macy HICKORY, N.C. — On a chilly spring evening in 2021, Tim Nolan set up a portable addiction clinic next to a McDonald’s dumpster, and he waited. His desk was the dashboard of his gray Prius, his office this parking lot, which smelled like frying oil and trash. The hatchback of the nurse practitioner’s car was full ...

Author: Alexis Jones August 3, 2022 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Members of Vocal Kentucky gathered at Jefferson Square Park Wednesday to share their "roadmap to ending drug overdoses." Their plan includes funding for housing, better access to services and treatment and stopping the criminalization of drug use. "When you provide people the tools, the education, the support and environment to be able to take care of themselves, they do," member Jennifer Twyman ...

July 11, 2022, 9:37 AM PDT By Kerry Breen As the overdose crisis in the United States continues — more than 100,000 people died of overdose in 2021, a new record — the practice of harm reduction is gaining new traction as a possible solution to the crisis. Harm reduction in the United States is widely acknowledged to have begun in the late 1980s, when syringe exchange programs were established ...

International Overdose Awareness Day is coming up and Landmark Recovery is creating a campaign to commemorate the people we've lost. If you've lost someone, and would like to be a part of this campaign to honor their memory, email Tara.Barone@Landmarkrecovery.com the following: Digital headshot/photo Their name and age of passing Short statement about the individual. Deadline for submissions is AUG 15. No one's ever really gone ...

On June 13, the Commonwealth of Kentucky released the 2021 Kentucky Drug Overdose Report. The results are devastating, if not surprising. 2,250 Kentuckians died from drug overdoses in 2021, a 14.5% increase compared to 2020. Increased use of fentanyl was the largest contributor to the rise in the death toll, with approximately 70% of all overdose deaths attributed to fentanyl. This yearly increase cannot become normalized. Every percentage point is ...

What Is Narcan and How Does It Stop Opioid Overdoses? A kit containing naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote that the surgeon general is advising more Americans to keep nearby. CreditHiroko Masuike/The New York Times By Elizabeth Dias and Annie Correal April 6, 2018 The United States surgeon general issued a rare national advisory on Thursday urging more Americans to carry naloxone, a drug used to revive people overdosing on opioids ...

Bleak New Estimates in Drug Epidemic: A Record 72,000 Overdose Deaths in 2017 Fentanyl is a big culprit, but there are also encouraging signs from states that have prioritized public health campaigns and addiction treatment. By Margot Sanger-Katz Aug. 15, 2018 Drug overdoses killed about 72,000 Americans last year, a record number that reflects a rise of around 10 percent, according to new preliminary estimates from the Centers for Disease ...

Report: Harm reduction restrictions helped fuel HIV outbreak By TAYLOR STUCK The Herald-Dispatch tstuck@hdmediallc.com HUNTINGTON — Access to HIV prevention and testing was limited in Cabell County prior to the HIV outbreak even with the county’s harm reduction program due to stricter requirements placed on the program in 2018, says a new report on the outbreak published Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The outbreak of ...