{"title":"Kentucky treatment backers mobilize to oppose access-limiting proposals","authors":"Gary Enos","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34255","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>By many measures, policy leaders in Kentucky have taken important steps to combat opioid overdose deaths and related challenges. State leaders embraced Medicaid expansion, in a region of the country where several holdout states remain. Regulations that would have severely limited access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic were lifted. A record number of syringe services programs statewide have made a difference in curbing infectious disease transmission.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"36 36","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adaw.34255","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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By many measures, policy leaders in Kentucky have taken important steps to combat opioid overdose deaths and related challenges. State leaders embraced Medicaid expansion, in a region of the country where several holdout states remain. Regulations that would have severely limited access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic were lifted. A record number of syringe services programs statewide have made a difference in curbing infectious disease transmission.