Dallas County received millions of dollars from its first distribution of a national settlement to treat and prevent opioid addiction.
received millions of dollars from its first distribution of a national settlement to treat and prevent opioid addiction.Dallas County is set to get $40 million total from that national settlement with the drug makers, while $10 million of that is already here and being put to use.
The $50 billion was from opioid manufacturers spread to states across America addressing what opioid addiction has done.First responders and hospital emergency rooms have been treating rising numbers of overdose patients.Texas expects $1.5 billion as part of nationwide opioid settlement with drugmakers
Associated Persons Affected by Addiction is one of the treatment centers working to break addictions."Wherever the dope where they are dying, that's the dope that people want," he explained. "If you are addicted to heroin, then wherever the drug is that's killing them, that's of course the most potent drug and that's the drug that addicts want….that's what you're seeing with fentanyl.
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