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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

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

American Cancer Society wants state to spend $10 million a year on smoking cessation and prevention; current budget is $2 million - Health News

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network will ask legislators in the upcoming General Assembly session to spend a lot more on tobacco prevention and cessation, with a focus on how decreasing smoking and vaping rates would improve Kentucky's economy and its workforce. Doug Hogan (LinkedIn photo) Doug Hogan, the group's government-relations director for Kentucky and West Virginia, told Kentucky Health News that Kentucky's high smoking rates come with great cost to people's health, health-care systems and the economy. "From a business perspective, businesses are losing thousands of dollars each month because of lost productivity and also on increased health-care costs for their employees who smoke," Hogan said. "This is a huge cost factor for our businesses and it's also a healthy-workforce issue." In a news release , Hogan said "Smoking is estimated to cost Kentucky $2.2

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