Sen. Katie Stine on Efforts to Curb Kentucky's Heroin Epidemic

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Channel: KET - Kentucky Educational Television · 2014 · News & Politics

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Senate Bill 5, sponsored by Kentucky Senate President Pro Tem Katie Stine (R-Southgate), seeks to provide treatment for addicts and stiffen penalties for traffickers. One of the bill's most contentious provisions would charge heroin dealers with criminal homicide in cases of an overdose death. Stine testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 16.

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