Navajo County adopts ground rules for spending opioid settlement money

Drug companies and pharmacies agree to pay state and local governments billions of dollars to reduce drug overdose deaths caused by reckless sales of opioid pain relievers dating back a decade bottom.

But it can lead to profiteering. Alternatively, it could throw money around without actually doing anything about the record increase in drug overdoses caused by synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Fentanyl is now being blended with many other drugs to attract new drugs. Generations of addicts have fallen deadly high.

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