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New London struggles to keep up with the demand for city services as opioid addictions and overdoses continue. As a result, officials said, the $167,158.60 the city will receive from opioid settlement over the next decade will not go as far as needed.
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Connecticut is close to meeting its goal for distributing naloxone, the generic name for Narcan, an emergency drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
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Connecticut has received an initial installment of $11 million from a $26 billion multistate settlement with Johnson & Johnson and drug wholesalers AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson. The four drug companies were sued for their roles in the opioid crisis. Over the next 18 years, Connecticut will receive $300 million as part of the settlement reached in February. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced the first payment in Waterbury on Monday. He was joined by state officials and also parents who lost children to the opioid crisis.
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Xylazine is not approved for humans. But it's being found in a quarter of drug samples tested statewide in Massachusetts. The sedative is linked to severe wounds, extreme anxiety in withdrawal, more overdoses and possibly more deaths.
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The lawsuit accused them of causing a health crisis by distributing 81 million pills over eight years in one West Virginia county ravaged by opioid addiction.
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Members of New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199 SEIU, are asking the state to fill 330 job vacancies at a state-operated hospital in order to reopen addiction treatment beds that have been limited during the pandemic.
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In order to receive settlement funds, towns and cities need to officially sign on to the $26 billion deal by Jan. 2. Local officials have been working to persuade 12 Connecticut municipalities that have yet to do so.
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Judge Colleen McMahon was expected to halt work on the controversial settlement that would give immunity from opioid lawsuits to the Sackler family. Instead she allowed work on the plan to go ahead.
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has lifted a 14-year ban on new applications to establish mobile methadone vans. Connecticut treatment providers say they intend to expand access to methadone for people suffering from opioid use disorder.
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Alcohol consumption by women with children younger than 5 surged during the pandemic. Where We Live discusses triggers, coping mechanisms, and treatment options available to treat women with alcohol use disorder.