Thursday marked International Overdose Awareness Day. The Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy says more than 2,100 Kentuckians died last year because of an overdose – a five percent decrease from the year prior. 90 percent of those deaths were from opioids.
Sharon Walsh is the director of the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research at UK. She’s helping lead the school’s HEALing Communities Study, which is working to provide more accessible treatment and education options across the state.
