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The migration of fentanyl into illicit stimulants such as cocaine is especially dangerous for people who are not regular ...

He credits a new program that the counseling center started with opioid settlement ... programs that aim to stop people from developing substance use disorders. States committed, on average ...

Dozens of interviews, thousands of pages of documents, an array of public records requests, and outreach to all 50 states resulted ... such as denying people medications for opioid use disorder.

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Guidance from the opioid trust discouraged counties from spending their funds on public defender positions, Spotlight PA ...

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