by dmorton
“He had a heart of gold. If someone wanted something, he’d give you the shirt off his back…” Karen Perry talks about losing her son, Richie, to a heroin overdose with her daughter-in-law, Kristen Perry. Karen Perry helped found the NOPE...
by dmorton
“There was just so little understanding of addiction and alcoholism, and especially for youth and young people…” Kimber Lee Falkinburg talks with Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about her addiction and...
by dmorton
“These babies were carrying the flag of the substance abuse problem in the United States…” Friends Kyle Cook and Carla Saunders, both neonatal nurse practitioners at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, talk about their pioneering work...
by dmorton
“At that time in my life, I can only describe that as I was a forest fire burning out of control…” Tony White, Program Director of the Morehead Intervention Center of Pathways, Inc., discusses his journey from addiction to long-term recovery...
by dmorton
“They were alleging that we had widespread abuse of Oxycontin. I didn’t believe it…” Kentucky 5th District Congressman Harold “Hal” Rogers tells his friend Tom Handy why he founded Operation UNITE, a first of its kind effort...
by dmorton
PIKEVILLE – Dr. Robert Califf, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), heard concerns and comments about the growing prescription opioid epidemic during a visit to southeastern Kentucky August 18, 2016. “It’s obvious that this is...
