In 2019 and again in 2023, the UK CES Statewide Community Needs Assessment identified substance use as the leading programmatic priority in most Kentucky counties. In response, an eclectic team of Ext...
Since the synthetic opioid fentanyl was first identified in the drug supply in 2014, fatal opioid overdoses have more than doubled in the US and in Kentucky (Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy, 20...
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...
