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Most health care professionals hold negative attitudes toward patients with substance use disorders, according to a 2013 systematic review of more than two dozen studies. One Indiana researcher wants to see if theatrical portrayals of life with addiction can help reduce such stigmas.
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The controversial harm reduction method allows for the safe use of drugs under the careful watch of medical professionals, peers or both. A lack of funding and political will are at play.
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Half-hour TV show profiles several mothers seeking substance abuse treatment at Walnut Hills facility.
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The Alternative Transport Program offers people experiencing an overdose to receive targeted addiction treatment instead of racking up medical bills. It also saves the Cincinnati Fire Department money.
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Despite their undisputed effectiveness in protecting children — and even though Kentucky has some of the highest rates of child maltreatment and opioid abuse in the nation — family recovery courts are still not widely available throughout the state. Kentucky previously funded several family drug courts, but they were eliminated in 2010 due to budget cuts. Now, over a decade later, the state legislature has decided to restore some of this funding — but only in Jefferson County.
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A mass of addiction services helped decrease overdose deaths in Hamilton County to about 454 last year. That's the lowest rate since 2017, when the county saw a peak of 570 overdose deaths. A new influx of cash from a recent national opiate settlement will boost those services.
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Ohio organizations that provide mental health and addiction care are finding it harder to recruit and retain workers, even as demand for their services increases due to the opioid crisis and COVID-19 pandemic.
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"Stigma can be devastating to those who are living with these diseases," Gov. Mike DeWine said. "Not only adding to the hardships of addiction and mental illness, but also preventing them from seeking the help they need to get well."
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East Walnut Hills had the highest overdose death rate for Black residents in the entire state of Ohio.
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Normally, if an employee tests positive for drugs, they’d be immediately fired. Instead, businesses participating in the Kentucky Transformational Employment Program will work to get employees struggling with addiction issues into a treatment program, with the goal of having that employee eventually return to the workplace.