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Louisville's 'Bos' Todd, national leader in mental health, dies at 93 - Health News

Bosworth Todd Kentucky Health News Bosworth M. "Bos" Todd Jr., who co-founded a pathbreaking treatment center in Louisville for mentally ill youth and the foundation that makes the most mental-health research grants in the nation, died Jan. 22. He was 93. Todd, a Frankfort native and University of Kentucky graduate, earned an MBA at Harvard Business School and worked in the investment industry. After his oldest son Sam was hospitalized with schizophrenia, he and his wife Joan, who died last year, joined with other parents to form the Schizophrenia Association of Louisville, now part of the National Alliance on Mental Illness . In the early 1980s, he joined attorney Philip Ardery, real-estate broker Malcolm “Mac” Matthews Jr. and Barry Bingham Sr., editor and publisher of The Courier-Journal , to found Wellspring as a transitional home for young people with schizophrenia. "It now has a $40 million budget and offers a variety of services to 1,000 people a

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By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission will hold its first public hearing Monday, July 17, about the use of an exotic psychedelic drug, ibogaine, as a treatment for opioid-use disorder. The hearing follows the May 31 announcement at which Bryan Hubbard, the commission's chair and executive director, asked the commission to consider using $42 million of the more than $900 million in settlement funds being paid by drug companies to invest in clinical trials of the drug to win approval for its use. The public hearing will be held in the Administrative Office of the Courts building, 1001 Vandalay Drive, Conference Room A-125, Frankfort from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. It will be live-streamed for those unable to attend. Hubbard told the commission at its July 11 meeting that the hearing will include an expert panel of researchers and clinicians who will provide insight into ibogaine therapy as a treatment for addiction. Hubbard told

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