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Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

In Kentucky, the rising heroin epidemic took 233 lives in 2014, according to a Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy report, and has been claiming more lives in the past year.

UK researcher and student create programs for more access to substance abuse treatment

Lee Mengistu April 2, 2016

In 2015, Dr. Amanda Fallin-Bennett, a UK nursing researcher focused on tobacco control, and Alex Elswick, a graduate student studying marriage and family therapy, co-founded Voices of Hope-Lexington, Inc.,...

Dr. Hsiu-Ying Lisa Tseng is sentenced to 30 years to life for murders in an L.A. case tied to pateints overdoses at Los Angeles Superior court on Feb. 5, 2016 in Los Angeles. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Kentucky should consider murder charges for pill-mill doctors

Patrick Brennan February 22, 2016

Take a moment to picture a murderer. Does she wear a white coat and give you pills?In an unprecedented case earlier this month, a California doctor, Dr. Hsiu-Ying “Lisa” Tseng, was convicted of second-degree...

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