Inmate tells how jail treatment services helps

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Inmate tells how jail treatment services helps. Email · print. Comments. 0 … have done while drunk because he cannot remember doing it. He is among the 70 percent of the inmate population that have drug and alcohol issues, according to Alcohol and …
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Kentucky prescription pill deaths drop, but heroin deaths skyrocket, report shows

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Prescription drug abuse deaths are down in Kentucky for the first time in a decade, but heroin deaths are skyrocketing, a new report shows. The report, released Friday by the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy, shows 1,004 drug overdose deaths in …
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As illegal trade of methadone grows, deaths are being tracked; local …

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Ginorio had died accidentally by taking a mixture of two prescription drugs that included methadone, a mainstay in treating heroin addiction and also prescribed as a painkiller. But Ginorio had no prescription. It was concluded … overdoses in 2009 as …
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