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White House launches new effort to prevent opioid overdoses: A senior official said what they've done so far is "not nearly enough."
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White House launches new effort to prevent opioid overdoses
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A groundbreaking drug law is scrapped in Oregon. What does that mean for decriminalization?
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A groundbreaking drug law is scrapped in Oregon. What does that mean for ...
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Libraries expand Naloxone clinics, training at Los Angeles County libraries: Naloxone, also known as Narcan, is an FDA-approved nasal spray that can quickly ...
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Libraries expand Naloxone clinics, training at Los Angeles County ...
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Clark County Jail gains naloxone vending machine: Clark County Jail Services and its partners have installed a naloxone vending machine in the jail’s public ...
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Clark County Jail gains naloxone vending machine
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Sweden makes naloxone spray an OTC product, to prevent opioid overdose deaths: Naloxone nasal spray, which can save opioid users from overdoses ...
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Sweden makes naloxone spray an OTC product, to prevent opioid overdose ...
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270,000 overdose deaths thrust fentanyl into heart of US presidential race: To understand the 2024 U.S. presidential election, it is essential to understand the ...
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270,000 overdose deaths thrust fentanyl into heart of US presidential race
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A Florida paramedic doubted this response to overdoses — then he saw it working: In some counties, hand-delivering withdrawal medications is stopping the opioid ...
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A Florida paramedic doubted this response to overdoses — then he saw it ...
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Nebraska lawmakers fail to override needle exchange bill veto: Nebraska state lawmakers failed to override Gov. Jim Pillen’s (R) veto of a needle exchange ...
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Nebraska lawmakers fail to override needle exchange bill veto
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Philly City Council postpones effort to require data collection on overdose reversals and homeless encampments
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Philly City Council postpones effort to require data collection on ...
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Narcan accessibility varies store-to-store across U.S., making life-saving opioid overdose drug harder to find
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Narcan accessibility varies store-to-store across U.S., making life-saving ...
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I Buried My Two Sons in 15 Months. I Implore Parents to Be Prepared: I heard the police laughing and one saying: "Hey, haven't we been here before?"
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I Buried My Two Sons in 15 Months. I Implore Parents to Be Prepared
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Drug overdose app which sends alerts to Naloxone carriers set to be launched: NaloFly uses GPS technology to call 999 while searching for the nearest registered ...
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Drug overdose app which sends alerts to Naloxone carriers set to be ...
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Naloxone Man: The IRL Superhero Teaching People How to Reverse Overdoses: Former raver and morph suit enthusiast George Charlton is an “expert by experience” ...
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Naloxone Man: The IRL Superhero Teaching People How to Reverse Overdoses
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Study: 42% of American adults know someone who died from an overdose | WBUR News: An estimated 42% of adults in the U.S. — roughly 125 million people — know at ...
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Study: 42% of American adults know someone who died from an overdose | ...
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Washington manages bipartisan support to ban hog-tying by police and address opioid crisis
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Washington manages bipartisan support to ban hog-tying by police and ...
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5 new efforts by King County to address the fentanyl crisis: King County officials announced a five-prong approach to stop the surge of fentanyl overdoses and to ...
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5 new efforts by King County to address the fentanyl crisis
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21st-century CPR: Los Gatos, Saratoga high schools hold student Narcan training: Students learn to identify, reverse opioid overdoses in the wake of fentanyl ...
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21st-century CPR: Los Gatos, Saratoga high schools hold student Narcan ...
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Fentanyl: Fatal fandango: The fentanyl opioid crisis in the United States may be making its way to Malaysian shores, due to the availability of illegal party ...
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Fentanyl: Fatal fandango
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How a “body farm” might help tackle fentanyl abuse: One strategy for getting Mexico to do more to curb the flow, U.S. officials say, is to demonstrate that ...
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How a “body farm” might help tackle fentanyl abuse
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Pa. law blocks needles, care, compassion for people trapped in addiction: Pennsylvania is one of the few states where needle exchanges are illegal ...
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Pa. law blocks needles, care, compassion for people trapped in addiction
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Senate approves bill allowing naloxone in schools: Holding a photo of his wife’s cousin, Wesley, who died from an opioid overdose, Republican Sen ...
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Senate approves bill allowing naloxone in schools
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Pa. law blocks needles, care, compassion for people trapped in addiction: Pennsylvania is one of the few states where needle exchanges are illegal ...
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Pa. law blocks needles, care, compassion for people trapped in addiction
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How vending machines help states battle the opioid crisis: ‘You don’t know when you’re going to need these products’
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How vending machines help states battle the opioid crisis: ‘You don’t know ...
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Nassau bill adds fentanyl test strips to overdose prevention kits: The legislation would include the strips inside thousands of kits currently distributed in the ...
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Nassau bill adds fentanyl test strips to overdose prevention kits
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More kids are dying of drug overdoses. Could pediatricians do more to help? : The surge in overdose deaths among teens is opening a new path to treatment: ...
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More kids are dying of drug overdoses. Could pediatricians do more to ...
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Suzanne Youngkin: Five steps to prevent overdose death: The first lady is campaigning for more Virginians to get the training – it takes a less than an hour – ...
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Suzanne Youngkin: Five steps to prevent overdose death
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NSW Health warns of opioid risk after people took heroin thinking it was cocaine or methamphetamine
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NSW Health warns of opioid risk after people took heroin thinking it was ...
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‘People are being poisoned’: Kansas bill offers immunity for helping overdose victims
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‘People are being poisoned’: Kansas bill offers immunity for helping ...
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Will a multimillion-dollar funding measure help WA tribes battle opioids?: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports Native Americans and Alaska ...
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Will a multimillion-dollar funding measure help WA tribes battle opioids?
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Smoking drugs now linked to more fatal overdoses than injections: New federal data points to the shifting nature of the U.S. drug epidemic.
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Smoking drugs now linked to more fatal overdoses than injections
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Mass. doctors hail new federal rule expanding access to methadone: The rule could turn the tide in combating rising levels of opioid overdoses ...
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Mass. doctors hail new federal rule expanding access to methadone
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North Texas woman arrested in boyfriend's fatal fentanyl overdose: Kami Ludwig is facing charges of murder and possession of a controlled substance in connection ...
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North Texas woman arrested in boyfriend's fatal fentanyl overdose
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Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay was found unresponsive in December in apparent overdose, police report says
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Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay was found unresponsive in December in ...
Quick Glance: Colts Respond to Jim Irsay's Suspected Overdose
  • Irsay continues to recover from his respiratory illness, as stated by the Colts on Wednesday.

  • The Colts have been fielding questions about Irsay's whereabouts in recent weeks, and announced that the owner would miss a scheduled show with his band.

  • It was reported that Irsay was found in Carmel, Indiana, on Wednesday.

  • When police arrived, they administered Narcan - a medicine used to quickly reverse the effects of an opioid overdose - before paramedics transferred him to the hospital, as reported by the gossip site.
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Opioid settlement funds in Mass. go unspent as deaths mount: Less than 5 percent of the money paid to cities and towns has been deployed to combat the epidemic.
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Opioid settlement funds in Mass. go unspent as deaths mount
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Southwest Airlines to carry overdose reversal medication in onboard medical kits 
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Southwest Airlines to carry overdose reversal medication in onboard ...
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Cops Are Portraying Themselves as Victims of Their Own Drug War: And it’s driving legislation to punish people who use drugs for supposedly endangering the ...
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Cops Are Portraying Themselves as Victims of Their Own Drug War
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WA Senate approves requirement for all public schools to have naloxone on hand: Washington moved a step closer Thursday to requiring all public ...
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WA Senate approves requirement for all public schools to have naloxone on ...
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Fentanyl fuelling US opioid overdose deaths Fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin as an analgesicUS blames China for poor domestic enforcement of ... Show more
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First state-regulated drug use site in US to open in Rhode Island this summer: Project Weber/RENEW is teaming up with clinical partner VICTA to open at a ...
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First state-regulated drug use site in US to open in Rhode Island this ...
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Studies suggest experimental drug could be alternative to opioids: What to know: The drug's manufacturer says they'll apply for FDA approval this year.
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Studies suggest experimental drug could be alternative to opioids: What to ...
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Synthetic opioids like fentanyl could increase in Australia soon. Experts say we need to prepare now
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Synthetic opioids like fentanyl could increase in Australia soon ...
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PSA said girl overdosed from touching fentanyl. It isn’t true, California official says
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PSA said girl overdosed from touching fentanyl. It isn’t true ...
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Mass. parents who lost children to overdoses push Beacon Hill to back prevention centers
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Mass. parents who lost children to overdoses push Beacon Hill to back ...
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CMS acknowledges teen drug use, will stock all public schools with Narcan: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools plans to stock Narcan, a naloxone opiod overdose ...
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CMS acknowledges teen drug use, will stock all public schools with Narcan
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Fentanyl forum inspires parents to talk openly with children about drugs, life: BCHD handed out free Naloxone kits, the life-saving opioid reversal drug ...
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Fentanyl forum inspires parents to talk openly with children about drugs ...
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State Department of Health to increase Narcan supplies in schools; Clark County districts await doses, details
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State Department of Health to increase Narcan supplies in schools; Clark ...
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Five fatally overdose on fentanyl in same area, Sacramento County deputies say: The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office tallied five fentanyl overdoses in eastern ...
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Five fatally overdose on fentanyl in same area, Sacramento County deputies ...
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The Opioid Epidemic: What Premeds Should Know and How to Help: Here are some things premedical students can do to address the opioid epidemic in the U.S.
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The Opioid Epidemic: What Premeds Should Know and How to Help
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CityLab Daily: The Fight Against Overdose Deaths on Public Transit: Also today: How mayors avoid burnout, and an underground lunch delivery train comes to the ...
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CityLab Daily: The Fight Against Overdose Deaths on Public Transit
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As opioids devastate tribes in Washington, tribal leaders push for added funding: OLYMPIA — Tribal leaders in Washington state are urging lawmakers there to pass ...
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As opioids devastate tribes in Washington, tribal leaders push for added ...
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San Francisco is now wastewater testing for fentanyl: The real-time data can help public health officials respond quickly to early warning signs ...
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San Francisco is now wastewater testing for fentanyl
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10 years ago, Gov. Peter Shumlin highlighted the opioid crisis. Has Vermont made any progress?
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10 years ago, Gov. Peter Shumlin highlighted the opioid crisis ...
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Proud Boy who disappeared before Jan. 6 sentencing, faked overdose, gets 10 years in prison
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Proud Boy who disappeared before Jan. 6 sentencing, faked overdose ...
Quick Glance: Proud Boy Member Sentenced to 10 Years After Fleeing Jan. 6 Conviction
  • Proud Boys member convicted in Jan. 6 case gets 10-year prison sentence after triggering six-week manhunt by fleeing.

  • Christopher Worrell, 52, arrested at home in Naples over six weeks after cutting off ankle monitor and disappearing.

  • Washington judge convicted Worrell in May for assaulting police during Capitol attack on Jan. 6.

  • Worrell arrested while attempting to covertly return home, according to FBI Tampa field office at time of arrest.
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Only 4 per cent of opioid overdose patients were prescribed drugs to manage addiction in week after hospital visit: Ontario study
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Only 4 per cent of opioid overdose patients were prescribed drugs to ...
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Honolulu mandates that bars, nightclubs, restaurants carry anti-overdose medication
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Honolulu mandates that bars, nightclubs, restaurants carry anti-overdose ...
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All of the Calgary Fire Department’s key markers were up in 2023 as Alberta posted record population growth and its opioid crisis worsened.
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King County’s 2023 fentanyl deaths top 1,050, surpassing record: King County has seen over 1,000 fatal fentanyl overdoses in 2023, surpassing a record set last ...
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King County’s 2023 fentanyl deaths top 1,050, surpassing record
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Key player in tobacco, opioid settlements warns about risks of squandering $50 billion windfall
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Key player in tobacco, opioid settlements warns about risks of squandering ...
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DeSantis said Florida overdose deaths declined. Preliminary data backs that up.: PolitiFact | Preliminary 2022 CDC data shows a 2.8% decrease in Florida overdose ...
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DeSantis said Florida overdose deaths declined. Preliminary data backs ...
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Sacramento deputies use Narcan to save 2-year-old boy who overdosed on drugs: Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies gave Narcan to 2-year-old boy who overdosed on ...
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Sacramento deputies use Narcan to save 2-year-old boy who overdosed on ...
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Opinion | We Need to Rethink Our Treatment of Pain: Cutting off access to pain medication will only hurt people who are truly suffering.
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Opinion | We Need to Rethink Our Treatment of Pain
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California schools are battling a fentanyl crisis. Why are parents so oblivious?: Fentanyl is now responsible for one in five youth deaths in California ...
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California schools are battling a fentanyl crisis. Why are parents so ...
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Potawatomi Tribe installs Narcan vending machines to address opioid crisis in northern Wisconsin
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Potawatomi Tribe installs Narcan vending machines to address opioid crisis ...
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Millions in opioid settlement funds sit untouched as overdose deaths rise: The money is part of the approximately $50 billion that states and local governments ...
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Millions in opioid settlement funds sit untouched as overdose deaths rise
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Vape detectors, financial literacy, Narcan access. Washington lawmakers already filing K-12 bills
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Vape detectors, financial literacy, Narcan access. Washington lawmakers ...