Aug 17 Health Rural Risk: Mobile Clinics Help Tackle Multifaceted Opioid Crisis In a room at the Letcher County Health Department in Whitesburg, Kentucky, about 20 people are learning how to use naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal medication. Among them is 18-year-old Morgan Hopkins. An aspiring therapist, Hopkins said she wants to be ready with naloxone if someone overdoses around her. “You never know what you’re going […] By Aaron Payne Aug 17 Health Rural Risk: Mobile Clinics Help Tackle Multifaceted Opioid Crisis Aaron Payne
Mar 2 Health Rural Risk: Fighting Disease Amid The Opioid Crisis Health officials in the Ohio Valley are investigating outbreaks of disease associated with needle drug use in what is emerging as a new public health threat from the region’s profound opioid addiction crisis. In northern Kentucky the health department is tracking a cluster of 43 recent HIV cases, about half of which are related to […] By Roxy Todd Mar 2 Health Rural Risk: Fighting Disease Amid The Opioid Crisis Roxy Todd