{"id":44495,"date":"2023-09-01T02:07:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T06:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=44495"},"modified":"2023-08-31T20:13:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:13:05","slug":"governor-declares-overdose-awareness-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2023\/09\/01\/governor-declares-overdose-awareness-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Declares &#8220;Overdose Awareness Day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27119\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2019\/12\/11\/governor-beshear-replaces-board-of-education\/governor-andy-beshear\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Governor-Andy-Beshear.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Governor Andy Beshear\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Governor-Andy-Beshear.jpg?fit=1024%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Governor-Andy-Beshear.jpg?resize=125%2C125\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-27119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Governor-Andy-Beshear.jpg?resize=125%2C125&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Governor-Andy-Beshear.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Governor-Andy-Beshear.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=125%2C125 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Governor-Andy-Beshear.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=125%2C125 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><br \/>\nGovernor Andy Beshear signed a new proclamation making Thursday \u201cOverdose Awareness Day\u201d in Kentucky.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Before signing the proclamation, the governor gave an update on how Kentucky is doing in fighting against the overdose epidemic. As of August, Kentucky State Police has seized over 171 pounds of fentanyl, which is a 60% increase compared to last year when they seized 107 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>In the first fiscal quarter of this year, Beshear said enough fentanyl had been seized to kill each and every Kentuckian six times over.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Kentucky is one of eight states that had a significant decrease in overdose deaths last year.<\/p>\n<p>While giving an update on the overdose data for this year, Beshear gave roughly $418,000 in drug prevention funding to multiple task forces fighting drug trafficking in Kentucky.<br \/>\nSource: WAVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Andy Beshear signed a new proclamation making Thursday \u201cOverdose Awareness Day\u201d in Kentucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":27119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-archive","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-bzF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Governor-Andy-Beshear.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44496,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495\/revisions\/44496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}