UNITE awarded $500,000 grant

Operation UNITE has been awarded a $500,000 grant to build capacity for prevention and healthy lifestyle programs across Kentucky. This grant, announced Tuesday, Sept. 27, is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Community Transformation...

Pregnant woman found at meth lab; 3 arrested

UPDATE 9-29-11 Police have charged Chad Stephen Rosen, 38, of Monticello, with giving a false name (Lenny Lunsford) to police and Shelley Parrigin has been arrested on an unrelated charge. Both were lodged in the Wayne County Detention Center. UNITE is pursuing...
Forum focuses on addiction issues

Forum focuses on addiction issues

PRESTONSBURG – A free educational forum for medical professionals on addiction-related issues will be offered Saturday, Nov. 12, in Prestonsburg. Free Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be offered for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners,...
Meth education program unveiled

Meth education program unveiled

LONDON – Dangers posed by methamphetamine are not limited to those who make or use the highly addictive drug, and that should concern everyone, a panel of professionals agreed during a forum unveiling a new statewide educational campaign September 13. “We’re all...
SKCTC president laudes UNITE efforts

SKCTC president laudes UNITE efforts

BENHAM – Future generations are less likely to be caught up in the region’s drug epidemic because of the seeds Operation UNITE has planted, said Dr. W. Bruce Ayers, president of Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College. “I am convinced the young people that...

‘Dragon’ fed 25,548 pills in Magoffin

SALYERSVILLE – Magoffin County residents brought 25,548 pills to be destroyed as part of a “Clean Your Medicine Cabinet Out Day” program held in Salyersville Wednesday, August 31. This was the third event held in Magoffin County since UNITE unveiled its “Pill Dragon”...