How Portugal eased its opioid epidemic, while U.S. drug deaths skyrocketed
Talk to people addicted to street drugs in Lisbon, Portugal's capital, and you hear confusion and di...
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In 2023, opioid settlement funds started being paid out. Here's how it's going
In 2023, state and local government received about $1.5 billion in settlement funds from more than a...
Law enforcement eyes opioid settlement cash for squad cars and body scanners
Policing expenses mount quickly: $25,000 for a law enforcement conference about fentanyl in Colorado...
Only 1 in 5 people with opioid addiction get the medications to treat it, study finds
Imagine if during a deadly public health crisis, 80% of Americans weren't able to get safe, effectiv...
A wasted chance to fight addiction? Opioid settlement cash fills a local budget gap
Over the past two years, as state attorneys general agreed to more than $50 billion in legal settlem...
Recovery high schools help kids heal from an addiction and build a future
Every weekday at 5280 High School in Denver starts the same way. Students in recovery from drug and ...
As states start to get opioid settlement cash, few are sharing how they spend it
Since last spring, drugmakers and distributors have sent out about $3 billion in opioid settlement f...
States differ on how best to spend $26B from settlement in opioid cases
With more than 200 Americans still dying of drug overdoses each day, states are beginning the high-s...