"80% OF THOSE WHO USE HEROIN AND FENTANYL NOW Started WITH A PRESCRIPTION PILL."
- JOHN TILLEY
Justice and Public Safety Secretary, Kentucky
"It’s Tearing at the fabric of our society. We have more kids in kinship care, and foster care, than ever before."
- Andy Beshear
"I’ve met with Leaders, Senators, congressmen...
and nothing’s being done, and it’s horrible. I’m sick of it, I’m fed up, and
I want it fixed!"
- Emily Walden
"It’s frustrating.
I think that the continued approval of more opioids that are stronger and quicker acting, it’s just not going to be beneficial. I think it’s ridiculous."
- Matt LaRocco
Addiction Expert
"The rise of opioid analgesic sales was meteoric. We reached our peak dispensing
371 million dosage units of opioids in a state of 4 million people...
That's Insane."
- Van Ingram
Kentucky’s Drug Czar
"It’s at epidemic levels, employers can’t find employees to work because they can’t pass drug tests. You have teachers that are arrested. It’s in every aspect of society."
- Henria BailEy Lewis
Drug Court Judge
