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BY Brooke Hasch, WHAS READ Broke Hasch WHAS 11 full article here and watch video: WHAS 11 News on : A New Vision in treatment for Heroin’s littlest victims: WHAS reports “Norton’s focus on infants with NAS is to wean them off the drugs before they’re even born. It begins with their mother and…

VIEW VIDEO & FULL STORY HERE LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) Antoinette Konz “In many ways, Hannah Gadd doesn’t want to remember the pain and heartache that Sept. 29, 2013, brought to her family. Hannah, who is now a senior at Louisville Male High School, was at home with her parents when she found…

See video and story here After KyHRC provided a Naloxone Training in Valley Station on October 12, ten days later a mother saved her son from a heroin overdose with Naloxone she had received from the training. The training was set up in Valley Station by Kristen Keller in memory…

With heroin arrests rising nearly 700 percent in the last four years, Jefferson County prosecutors are taking a new approach to some of those cases, emphasizing addiction treatment over jail. By utilizing a “rocket docket” model, prosecutors said heroin users ideally would get rehab help more quickly, spend less time…

Substance abuse, particularly the diversion and abuse of prescription drugs as well as heroin is one of the most critical public health and safety issues facing Kentucky. Over the past decade, the number of Kentuckians who die from drug overdoses has steadily climbed to more than 1,000 each year, exacting…