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Kentucky’s fight against substance abuse
Few challenges have weighed more heavily on Kentucky families and communities than substance abuse. Addiction has touched every county, every community, every school district, and countless homes across the Commonwealth. It tears apart families, burdens our health care and justice systems, and cruelly steals both lives and livelihoods. However, there is hope. Each September we
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Former Inez lawyer climbed out of alcoholism, launched a recovery boom
BY DEBORAH YETTER KENTUCKY LANTERN LOUISA — Around the office at Addiction Recovery Care, Vanessa Keeton is still known as “Client One” — marking her status as the first client of the first recovery center ARC opened as a group home in Lawrence County. But her official title is vice president of marketing, where she
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Telehealth helps people stay in drug treatment, UK study finds
BY RACHEL EVANS and ELIZABETH CHAPIN UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY Drug users getting buprenorphine treatment for opioid-use disorder through telehealth are slightly more likely to stay in treatment longer than those who start treatment without telehealth, according to a new University of Kentucky study analyzing Medicaid data from 2019-2020 in Kentucky and Ohio. Published in the
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Inez coalition gets $500,000 to support substance abuse recovery
BY RACHEL DOVE MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Of the nearly $14 million in Appalachian Regional Commission INSPIRE grants awarded to 43 projects to support substance abuse recovery programs, $500,000 is coming to Thrive Community Coalition in Inez. ARC Federal Co-Chair Gayle Manchin joined Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear Monday in Ashland to make the announcement. Thrive
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Clinic that serves 33 Kentucky counties is first in state to get grant for comprehensive drug treatment and recovery
KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS A behavioral-health clinic that serves 33 Kentucky counties is the first in the state to receive a grant from a national program that fosters comprehensive drug treatment and recovery centers with a full spectrum of treatment, harm reduction and recovery support services, especially for people without commercial health insurance. Mountain Comprehensive Care
