• Opioid Prescribing & Addiction
  • The Good, Bad, and Ugly
    • Faculty Information
  • Tackling the Opioid Epidemic
    • Faculty Information
  • HCV & Substance Misuse
  • Patient & Prescriber Resources

Other HB1 Endorsed Courses:
Drug Conviction Data in KASPER

Sponsors

This activity is jointly sponsored by the University of Kentucky, Kentucky Injury Prevention Resource Center, Appalachian Regional Commission, Operation UNITE, and Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy.

Welcome

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, Kentucky had the second highest drug overdose death rate in the US in 2013.

Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
Kentucky Department for Public Health - (Released October 2015)

Health care providers encounter patients seeking prescription or illicit drugs in all work settings and routinely provide 24-hour care to patients in hospital. They are in frequent contact with patients seeking health care who use illicit drugs and face complex clinical and personal situations that require a high level of clinical competence, expertise, and skill. Practitioners are concerned about prescribing opioids because of the problems with addiction and regulatory oversight.