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The company and the Sackler family will pay $6 billion over 18 years to victims, survivors and the states involved.
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Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would establish safe injection sites and more accessible mental and physical health services in the state. This harm reduction approach looks to prevent more overdose deaths.
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The US Drug Enforcement Agency issued a national warning about brightly-colored fentanyl pills that target young people. So far the pills have been found in over a dozen states including New York.
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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong was in Waterbury to announce that the first $11 million had been paid. Most of the money would go to opioid treatment and prevention programs in the state's 169 cities and towns.
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wants to add $3.2 billion to the National Drug Control program. This will bring the total funding to $42.5 billion to help reduce opioid overdoses in vulnerable communities, including Long Island.
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The state was one of eight, along with Washington, D.C., that signed the $6 billion settlement.
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Opioids killed nearly 1,400 Connecticut residents last year, according to the state attorney general’s office.
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Connecticut will receive at least $300,000 in funding through a national settlement with opioid manufacturers.
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U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut announced Monday a $900,000 federal grant that will help the city of Waterbury combat the opioid epidemic.
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A judge has ordered another delay in lawsuits against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and the company’s owners, the Sackler family.