The twin epidemic/pandemics of opioid overdose and COVID-19 collided in 2020. As a result, national overdose fatalities surged to more than 108,000 lives lost in 2021 (CDC, 2022). In that same year in...
Substance use and substance use disorder (SUD) are pervasive public health problems in Kentucky. Nationally, the Commonwealth ranks third in overdose mortality rate, second in parental incarceration r...
In 2021, overdose deaths surged to more than 100,000 drug poisonings in a single calendar year, marking the most devastating year on record. In Kentucky, the overdose mortality rate rose 14.5% in 2021...
Drug overdose persists as the leading cause of accidental death to Kentuckians in 2020. During the 12-month span beginning in March 2020 and coinciding with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US ...
