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Jennifer Hancock

Jennifer Hancock

Jennifer Hancock is president and CEO of Volunteers of America Mid-states, a nationally recognized organization providing substance use disorder recovery services throughout Kentucky.

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Kentucky should decriminalize fentanyl test strips to protect unwitting users and first responders

By: - March 10, 2023

“We’ve never seen one drug this prevalent in the toxicology reports of overdose fatalities.” Those were the words of Van Ingram executive director of the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy. A record high 2,250 Kentuckians died from drug overdoses in 2021, a 14.5% increase compared with the year prior. Fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid, […]