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For the eighth year, University of Kentucky administrators and researchers will join officials from local, state and federal agencies, as well as leaders from business, academia, and communities across the country impacted by prescription drug abuse for the 2019 RX Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta.

The four-year, more than $87 million study has an ambitious but profoundly important goal: reducing opioid overdose deaths by 40 percent in 16 counties that represent more than a third of Kentucky’s population.

Preliminary data shows that the Find Help Now Kentucky website, a near real-time treatment locator for substance use disorders, has had 70,000 individuals seeking help from the site since February 2018.

The University of Kentucky International Center, in cooperation with the Institute of International Education and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is hosting the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Enrichment Seminar: Combating Addiction, March 20-23, 2019.

For International Women's Day and Women's History Month, we are highlighting women of UK. Researcher and Appalachian Kentucky native Michele Staton has a passion to help incarcerated women struggling with substance abuse.

Erin Calipari, an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, recently visited the University of Kentucky to give a talk about her work in addiction research.

While it isn’t typically the role of emergency medicine clinicians to identify chronic diseases, Dr. J. Daniel Moore, assistant professor of emergency medicine in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, knew it had to become their job.

Working with the UK Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a group led by Kevin Pearson in UK's Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences was able to identify a potential cellular mechanism that connects a mother's smoking while pregnant with an increased risk of offspring obesity later in life.

On this week's episode of "Behind the Blue" hear about the development of "Find Help Now KY" from Terry Bunn, an associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Public Health and director of the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center.

Svetla Slavova, Ph.D., associate professor of biostatistics in the UK College of Public Health's Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center, will lead work that includes collaboration with the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting (KASPER) system, the Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.