Now, the opioid crisis was the main topic on day two of the Saw summit, and Corbin Research psychiatrist Dr. Nora Volkow was the keynote speaker.

Her work is a big reason why drug addiction is now called a brain disorder.

She talked to Kentucky Addiction or Kentucky addiction, rather, about addiction in Kentucky.

Kentucky has always impressed me in terms of its leadership that it casts in relates to politics of the importance of these.

These are issues that we cannot ignore the opioid epidemic, that's one.

But also from the perspective of health care systems, they have been incredibly proactive in ensuring that there is treatment available for people that need it.

Kentucky has been a leader in that place in the perspective of science.

Kentucky has also play a very important role in the science of addiction.

In fact, the first Addiction Research Center and I mentioned that earlier, was created here in Kentucky, and it has existed since then, and it has laid our opening of researchers and scientists and discoveries.

So how do you treat the people that have an opioid addiction?

How do you implement them?

How do you reverse overdoses?

How do you create support from the community?

What is that data that you can obtain in in communities to help you understand how you are going to intervene and what the magnitude of the problem is?

So Kentucky has led off the political, clinical, and I would say scientific in the field of addiction.

Kentucky has one of the highest rates of mortality from perspective of trajectory.

It's in a better place than many other states, but it still is.

Numbers are very, very high.

Bringing up these forums where actually we get people with different disciplines together so that we can discuss the challenges and understand what the others are doing and where we can help.

For us in that, I mean, not National Institute on Drug Abuse Fund Science, we are the knowledge organization.

So understanding what gap areas exist.

What would someone want to know in order to develop a policy is important so that we can build the science towards it.

Now the source summit began back in 2013 and it stands for Shaping Our Appalachian Region.

Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced a $600,000 grant foresaw law that will go towards job training for recently released inmates with a history of substance use disorder.