KY Leaders/Lawmakers Attending Drug Abuse Summit

• {Orlando, Florida}...Top health leaders and lawmakers from Kentucky who are trying to end multistate prescription drug trafficking and abuse are attending the National Rx Drug Abuse Summit, which runs Tuesday through Thursday in Orlando, Florida. The event is being organized by the eastern Kentucky anti-drug group Operation UNITE and will feature remarks by Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina M. Benjamin and R. Gil Kerlikowkse, the nation's "drug czar." It is expected to draw around 700 people. Karen Kelly, president of Operation UNITE, says Kentucky is not an island when it comes to prescription drug abuse, which kills more Kentuckians than car wrecks.