Interview with Amy Baker, February 20, 2019

Project: Painkiller: An Oral History of the Opioid Epidemic

Interview Summary

Amy Baker discusses her early work in substance abuse intervention, working with incarcerated populations in Frankfort in the 1990s. She discusses how the state was trying to deal with increasing levels of substance abuse, particularly opioid addiction when Oxycontin came on the market. She recalls that when she became the program coordinator for Lexington's Substance Abuse and Violence Intervention Program, the city was looking at how to implement programs to curb overdose deaths. One of these programs was the city's needle exchange program, which opened in 2015.

Baker was the Program Coordinator for Lexington's Substance Abuse and Violence Intervention Program at the time of this interview.

Interview Accession

2019oh0092_pain0029

Interviewee Name

Amy Baker

Interviewer Name

Nadia Ramlagan

Interview Date

2019-02-20

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Baker, Amy Interview by Nadia Ramlagan. 20 Feb. 2019. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Baker, A. (2019, February 20). Interview by N. Ramlagan. Painkiller: An Oral History of the Opioid Epidemic. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Baker, Amy, interview by Nadia Ramlagan. February 20, 2019, Painkiller: An Oral History of the Opioid Epidemic, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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