Recent Releases
K-SURE
Brief: Five Major Overdose Related Substances in Kentucky,
January 1, 2017-June 30, 2018.
This data brief is a product from the Kentucky- Substance Use Research and Enforcement (K-SURE) collaborative between the Kentucky State Police and the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center to use data to drive public safety and public health efforts against substance use across the Commonwealth.
Kentucky
Drug Overdose Fatality Surveillance System (DOFSS) Highlights,
2017
Kentucky's Drug Overdose Fatality Surveillance System (DOFSS) is a comprehensive database that utilizes multiple sources to enhance the Commonwealth’s analytical capacity to identify and characterize drug overdose fatalities. This report contains key provisional findings from analysis of 2017 DOFSS data.
Kentucky
Drug Overdose Burden Report, 2016-2017
For 2016- 2017, county level public health and public safety data are analyzed to create a Drug Overdose Risk Index Score, which is then analyzed using a geospatial tool to identify hot spots. Hot spot counties can be used by both public safety and health to prioritize drug related intervention and prevention efforts across Kentucky.
Kentucky Drug Overdose Fatality Report, Quarter 1 - 2018
Kentucky Drug Overdose Fatality Surveillance System (DOFSS) data are analyzed to show the most recent trends in drug overdose deaths in the state. Preliminary data shows a decrease in the overall number of drug overdose deaths in Q1-2018 from Q4-2017
Drug
Overdose Fatality Surveillance System (DOFSS) 2016 Annual
Report
Kentucky's Drug Overdose Fatality Surveillance System (DOFSS) is a comprehensive database that utilizes multiple sources to enhance the Commonwealth’s analytical capacity to identify and characterize drug overdose fatalities. The DOFSS annual report highlights findings from this surveillance system for drug overdose fatality deaths in 2016.
Drug-Related
Morbidity Dashboards for Q4 2017
View the latest trends in emergency department visits and hospital discharges for drug overdoses and other indicators of drug-related morbidity.
Find
Help Now KY Addiction Treatment Locator Officially Launched!
A new website will provide a vital link for Kentucky health care providers, court officials, families and individuals seeking options for substance abuse treatment and recovery. "Find Help Now KY" (www.findhelpnowky.org) will deliver real-time information about available space in substance use disorder treatment program, and guide users to the right type of treatment for their needs.
Faculty & Staff
Meet the faculty and staff behind the community outreach and research initiatives in KIPRC.
Injury Prevention News
State-Academic Partnership Helps
Kentuckians "Find Help Now" for Addiction
A new website will provide a vital link for Kentucky health care providers, court officials, families and individuals seeking options for substance abuse treatment and recovery. Find Help Now KY (www.findhelpnowky.org) will deliver real-time information about available space in substance use disorder treatment program, and guide users to the right type of treatment for their needs.
Health Department Provides 144 Free Narcan
Kits in 1st Community Class
The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department provided 144 naloxone kits Tuesday at its first class to train the community on the overdose-reversing medication. Due to overwhelming demand, the health department plans to hold additional community classes to be announced soon.
There is More Than One Opioid Crisis -
FiveThirtyEight
The Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center is one of the organizations trying to put the puzzle pieces together. A partnership between the state Public Health Department and the University of Kentucky College of Public Health, the center is investigating the causes of the state's drug overdoses to help policymakers make more educated decisions about how to tackle the crisis.
Prosecutors Treat Opioid Overdoses as Homicides, Snagging Friends, Relatives
As U.S. drug deaths hit record levels, prosecutors and police are trying a tactic that echoes tough-on-crime theories of the 1990s.
In the U.S., Flu Season Could Be Unusually Harsh This Year
Health officials are warning that the United States may have an unusually harsh flu season this year. But they stress that flu seasons are notoriously difficult to predict, and it's far too early to know for sure what may happen.
The State of the Opioid Crisis Ahead of 2018
The nation's opioid crisis reached new proportions in 2017, with provisional data revealing that there were 17 percent more deaths from drug overdoses between May 2016 and May 2017, compared to the previous year.
CDC: Rural Americans More Likely to Die by Suicide
Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United
States. And, according to CDC data released Oct. 6 in a
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, rural counties had
higher suicide rates than metropolitan counties from 2001 to
2015.
Tobacco Nation's Left Behind
About a quarter of all adult smoking deaths occur in this
bloc of 12 states annually.
Opioid addiction costs Lexington millions.
Now it wants drug companies to pay.
The city of Lexington filed a federal lawsuit Thursday
against more than a dozen drug manufacturers and
distributors alleging the companies helped cause an opioid
addiction epidemic by flooding the city with pain pills.
Trump Declares Opioid Epidemic a National
Public Health Emergency
President Donald Trump declared the opioid epidemic a
national public health emergency on Thursday, telling an
audience in the East Room of the White House that "we can be
the generation that ends the opioid epidemic."
Screening For Diabetes is Working Better
Than Thought
Undiagnosed diabetes may not be as big of a public health
problem as thought.
Kentucky Drug Overdose Fatality
Surveillance System report sheds new light on OD
circumstances
The Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC),
a bona fide agent for the Kentucky Department for Public
Health located at the University of Kentucky College of
Public Health, in collaboration with the Kentucky Office of
the State Medical Examiner's Office and county coroner
offices, recently published the inaugural Kentucky Drug
Overdose Fatality Surveillance System (DOFSS) report.
June is National Safety Month - NSC
Observed annually in June, National Safety Month focuses on reducing leading causes of injury and death at work, on the road and in our homes and communities.