WDRB Fox 41 Reports on the Drug Czar’s Visit to Kentucky (Feb. 22, 2011)

WDRB Fox 41 reports on the drug czar’s visit to Kentucky (Feb. 22, 2011) – SENATOR McCONNELL’S COLUMN ON THE DRUG CZAR’S VISIT TO KENTUCKY February, 2011 The numbers are staggering: We’re losing 82 Kentuckians a month to drug overdose, from the cities to rural areas in Appalachia. Nearly one thousand of our fellow Kentuckians died from drug overdose in 2009, more than those killed in traffic crashes. Last year, law enforcement responded to 1100 meth lab sites across the state, up from 738 in 2009. And Kentucky ranks in the top three of marijuana-producing states. Too many of our children are experimenting with drugs. Kentucky ranked 8th in the nation for abuse of prescription pain reliever drugs among 12- to 17-year-olds, and in eastern Kentucky, the average age when a child first gets high on prescription pills is 11. Drug abuse persists as a serious problem in all 120 counties of the commonwealth. But the numbers alone can’t tell the whole story. Drug addiction fuels crime, particularly theft, as abusers steal to support their habit. Drugs not only hurt the people who abuse them; they rip families apart. Parents who are addicted will neglect their children because all they care about is getting high. And I’ve met too many families who have lost a child to drug abuse, and will never get to see their beloved son or daughter grow up. Fighting drug abuse takes a large bite out of government resources at the federal, state and local levels. And in this era of multi-trillion-dollar deficits, our government—at the local, state and federal levels—must …

Tonight: Immigration, guns and a referee controversy at the Super Bowl

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On the heels of Tuesday's speech by Barack Obama – in which the president pledged to support a "comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration laws" – tonight Governor Jan Brewer will return to "Piers Morgan Tonight," offering her reaction to a topic that …
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Heroin replacing pain pills as drug of choice in some parts of Kentucky

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Police in Louisville and the Northern Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati said they began seeing more heroin as early as four years ago, but it was in the last 12 months that heroin surpassed pain pills as the preferred drug of addicts. The resurgence of …
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Around the Big Ten: 8 Penn State students linked to cheerleader's fall

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Stutman, who spent 25 years investigating drug cases, has appeared on hundreds of television shows, including "Today" and "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Hager is a former New York Daily News reporter who served as the editor of High Times Magazine for …
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