Kentucky treatment backers mobilize to oppose access‐limiting proposals

By many measures, policy leaders in Kentucky have taken important steps to combat opioid overdose deaths and related challenges. State leaders embraced Medicaid expansion, in a region of the country where several holdout states remain. Regulations that would have severely limited access to care during the COVID‐19 pandemic were lifted. A record number of syringe services programs statewide have made a difference in curbing infectious disease transmission.