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To support efforts to reduce the impact of opioid use disorder in Kentucky, researchers from the University of Kentucky are developing a novel statewide surveillance system. Data from federal, state, and local sources will be used by the Rapid Actionable Data for Opioid Response in Kentucky (RADOR-KY) to direct evidence-based strategies aimed at avoiding opioid overdoses in the Commonwealth. A three-year $3.1 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Addiction will fund phase one of the research (NIDA). As a result of the COVID-19 epidemic and fentanyl produced illegally, drug overdose deaths in the United States reached record highs in 2021. Kentucky has been severely affected by the opioid crisis. 2,250 people died from overdoses, an all-time high, and 90% of those deaths involved an overdoseto-support-efforts-to-reduce-the-impact-of-opioid-use-disorder-in-kentucky,-researchers-from-the-university-of-kentucky-are-developing-a-novel-statewide-surveillance-system-data-from-federal,-state,-and-local-sources-will-be-used-by-the-rapid-actionable-data-for-opioid-response-in-kentucky-(rador-ky)-to-direct-evidence-based-strategies-aimed-at-avoiding-opioid-overdoses-in-the-commonwealth-a-three-year-$31-million-grant-from-the-national-institute-on-drug-addiction-will-fund-phase-one-of-the-research-(nida)-as-a-result-of-the-covid-19-epidemic-and-fentanyl-produced-illegally,-drug-overdose-deaths-in-the-united-states-reached-record-highs-in-2021-kentucky-has-been-severely-affected-by-the-opioid-crisis.-2,250-people-died-from-overdoses,-an-all-time-high,-and-90%-of-those-deaths-involved-an-overdose

To support efforts to reduce the impact of opioid use disorder in Kentucky, researchers from the University of Kentucky are developing a novel statewide surveillance system. Data from federal, state, and local sources will be used by the Rapid Actionable Data for Opioid Response in Kentucky (RADOR-KY) to direct evidence-based strategies aimed at avoiding opioid overdoses in the Commonwealth. A three-year $3.1 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Addiction will fund phase one of the research (NIDA). As a result of the COVID-19 epidemic and fentanyl produced illegally, drug overdose deaths in the United States reached record highs in 2021. Kentucky has been severely affected by the opioid crisis. 2,250 people died from overdoses, an all-time high, and 90% of those deaths involved an overdose

By Mike Panakis on April 10, 2023

The RADOR-KY project, which is being co-led by Jeff Talbert, Ph.D., professor in the colleges of medicine and pharmacy, and Svetla Slavova, Ph.D., associate professor…

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