Governor Matt Bevin issued an emergency administrative regulation allowing Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family services to take emergency action to make a synthetic opioid known as U-47700 a Schedule 1 controlled substance and subject to criminal drug penalties. The emergency regulation allows other drugs and synthetics that are scheduled on the federal register to be automatically placed in the same drug class in Kentucky regulation. This allows the process to be expedited, instead of reopening the regulation every time a new synthetic drug is discovered.