Monday night on Kentucky.

Tonight, we brought you disrupting addiction to form.

It was a discussion about Kentucky's ongoing drug overdose crisis and what can be done about it.

After the program, our panel took questions from the audience, including this one.

Transportation is an issue, as you talked about.

What's happening in eastern Kentucky, even in urban Louisville, even in Lexington.

Access to services cannot happen if we don't do something about the transportation and people being able to have more mobile responses and things like that.

Are any of you working on, even in the funding realm of providing more support around transportation and services?

You're right.

I mean, as Secretary Freelander and Director Hubbard, as I traveled around the state before the debate was kicking off.

Transportation came up at every city we visited that along with the recovery housing.

One of the things my office has done is granted money to the Department of Corrections.

And we said, anybody who's on probation and parole and needs a ride to a job, appointment to a treatment appointment, we'll provide that.

We've expanded that to the Department for Public Advocacy and they're sentencing alternative sentencing workers.

A lot of times they can get a judge to agree to an opportunity to go to treatment.

We have to get them there.

But we have made things hopefully easier in terms of being able to access that transportation.

What we've done is we've said we used to say you couldn't use it for methadone treatments.

We've taken that away.

We used to say if there was a car somewhere in the family that you couldn't access the transportation pieces.

Well, what if somebody is going to a job?

What if the car doesn't work?

So we have tried to make access a really important point for what we do.

We partnered with the General Assembly on like when an ambulance goes out or first responder of that type goes out.

Instead of forcing them to take somebody to hospital, we are now working on allowing them to maybe do a little treatment where they are if they have that skill set.

And then as well as not necessarily taking somebody to a hospital but taking somebody to treatment.

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