
Headlines Around Kentucky (6/4/2024)
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Report: Kentucky gets failing grade when it comes to pregnant women's mental health.
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Headlines Around Kentucky (6/4/2024)
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And we have the latest fentanyl numbers from the state.
Our Toby Gibbs has that and more in our Tuesday.
Look at headlines around Kentucky.
Officials with Kentucky's counter-drug program say they seized more than 265,000 fentanyl pills and more than £200 of fentanyl during the 2023 fiscal year.
According to the Advocate Messenger.
Governor Andy Beshear says the number of seized fentanyl pills rose by more than 5,000% from the 2022 fiscal year.
So far in 2024, the state has seized more than 86,000 fentanyl pills and about £93 of fentanyl.
Officials estimate one kilogram of fentanyl, which is about £2, could kill half a million people.
The Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health gives Kentucky a D grade in its second annual report for policies to support the mental health of pregnant women.
But that's an improvement.
The center gave Kentucky a minus last year.
The Harlan Enterprise reports the national grade was D-plus.
D was the most common grade, and 23 states had higher grades than Kentucky.
The center praised Kentucky's lawmakers for passing the so called mom.
The bill, which includes more access to health insurance coverage for pregnant women, creates a mental health hotline, covers lactation consultation and needed breastfeeding equipment, and educates mothers on the bene Police are now charged a woman suspected of attempting to hide the birth of a baby found dead in a Bowling Green restaurant.
The Bowling Green Daily News reports that Shaniqua Caldwell was booked and charged with concealing the birth of an infant, a misdemeanor, according to police reports.
A caller reported the baby in an IHOP bathroom.
Witnesses said the woman had attempted to flush the baby down the toilet.
The woman told police she had been at IHOP but denied being pregnant.
Police say an autopsy planned and additional charges are possible.
This comes after Bowling Green Fire Department's newest station covering the Kentucky Trans Park dedicated the city's second safe haven baby box.
The newspaper says the box allows parents to surrender an infant safely and anonymously.
Kentucky now has 37 similar boxes across the state with headlines around Kentucky.
I'm Toby Gibbs.
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