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Three people were inside this burning home but managed to get out safely.
Firefighters are battling a massive fire in East Bank in Kanawha County. A house on Walnut Street went up in flames around 5:15 a.m. Firefighters said two people were home at the time but managed to
Three escape massive fire in a home on Walnut Street in Kanawha County
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -
Several states hard hit by prescription drug abuse will work together to
develop strategies to combat what authorities say is an ever-growing problem.
Kentucky
will join Alabama, Arkansas,
Colorado, New
Mexico, Oregon
and Virginia in the initiative.
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear said all the states
recognize that comprehensive regional and national strategies are needed to
fight prescription abuse.
Meanwhile, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway has
joined another national campaign aimed at preventing prescription abuse among
teenagers. Conway said the goal is
to prevent a half million teens from abusing prescription drugs within five
years.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report
that one person dies every 19 minutes in the United
States from an overdose. And in Kentucky,
more than 1,000 people die each year from prescription drug overdoses.
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