{Washington, D.C.}...U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell met Thursday with White House Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske to discuss the drug problems facing Kentucky and to urge him to include Hardin County in the Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. McConnell said more than 80 Kentuckians are dying in Kentucky each month from drug overdoses. That is more than are killed in car crashes in the state.
