Kentucky drops two spots in America's Health Rankings, based on data since 2012 or earlier

Kentucky dropped two spots in the 25th annual America's Health Rankings report this year and finds itself once again as one of the bott...

Deaths from drug overdoses and prescriptions for opiate treatment drugs are both rising, worrying state officials

Despite measures to discourage prescription drug abuse, Kentucky health officials report overdose deaths continue to rise and opioid treatme...

KET will look at how Kentucky communities are fighting back against the heroin epidemic

Heroin use is sky-rocketing in certain areas of Kentucky and many communities are fighting back with local solutions. Host Renee Shaw and gu...

Kentucky doctors treat an increasing number of babies suffering from drug addiction given to them by their mothers

Neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS, is becoming such a widespread problem that many medical professionals are calling it an epidemic and a...

UK professor develops nasal spray to deliver standard antidote to painkiller overdose; fast-tracked, in final clinical trials

A new lifesaving product to treat painkiller overdoses is in its final round of clinical trials at the  University of Kentucky  and is being...

CDC director to attend a series of events Aug. 4-6 to talk about health issues in Appalachian Ky.; public is invited to attend

The director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will participate in four events in Eastern Kentucky next week to disc...

Former pharmacist and county commissioner discusses his battle with addiction with Hopkinsville newspaper

Jeremy Bowles, a former pharmacist and county commissioner in Montgomery County, Tennessee, was convicted of drug and forgery charges, and n...