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    Why Opioid Settlement Money Is Paying County Employees’ Salaries – Fitnessnacks

    More than $4.3 billion in opioid settlement money has landed in the hands of city, county and state officials to date — with...

    Swap Funds or Add Services? Use of Opioid Settlement Cash Sparks Strong Disagreements – Fitnessnacks

    State and local governments are receiving billions of dollars in opioid settlements to address the drug crisis that has ravaged America for decades....

    Track Opioid Settlement Payouts — To the Cent — In Your Community – Fitnessnacks

    State and local governments are receiving billions of dollars in settlements from companies that made, sold, or distributed prescription painkillers and were accused...

    A Paramedic Was Skeptical About This Rx for Stopping Repeat Opioid Overdoses. Then He Saw It Help. – Fitnessnacks

    OCALA, Fla. — Fire Capt. Jesse Blaire steered his SUV through the mobile home park until he spotted the little beige house with...

    Journalists Track Efforts to Curb the Opioid Crisis and Put Catholic Hospitals Under the Scope – Fitnessnacks

    KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed her experiences reporting on addiction and offers advice to journalists starting on this beat for...

    West Virginia City Once Battered by Opioid Overdoses Confronts ‘Fourth Wave’ – Fitnessnacks

    HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — From 2006 through 2014, more than 81 million painkiller pills were shipped to this city and surrounding rural Cabell County. The...

    Statistical Models vs. Front-Line Workers: Who Knows Best How to Spend Opioid Settlement Cash? – Fitnessnacks

    MOBILE, Ala. — In this Gulf Coast city, addiction medicine doctor Stephen Loyd announced at a January event what he called “a game-changer”...

    Journalists Examine Medicaid Unwinding, Farmworkers’ Mental Health, and the Big Opioid Payback – Fitnessnacks

    KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed how Mobile, Alabama, is weighing whether to use opioid settlement funds to pay treatment costs...

    ‘Fourth Wave’ of Opioid Epidemic Crashes Ashore, Propelled by Fentanyl and Meth – Fitnessnacks

    The United States is knee-deep in what some experts call the opioid epidemic’s “fourth wave,” which is not only placing drug users at...

    Records Show Publix Opioid Sales Grew Even as Addiction Crisis Prompted Other Chains’ Pullback – Fitnessnacks

    Ian Hodgson, Tampa Bay Times and Christopher O’Donnell, Tampa Bay Times An executive at Teva Pharmaceuticals flagged Publix Super Markets in October 2015 after...
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