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Toby Talbot/APRural Oregon groups to get opioid settlement funding to set up recovery centers to help people in addiction. -
Justin Higginbottom/JPRThe opioid epidemic, boosted by the arrival of the drug fentanyl, has torn through communities in Southern Oregon. It鈥檚 also having a devastating impact on mothers struggling with addiction. An innovative facility in the Rogue Valley is helping those parents and their children.
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The settlement funds are the result of thousands of lawsuits filed against a host of health care companies, including Johnson & Johnson, McKesson, CVS Health, and Walmart, for aggressively promoting and distributing painkillers. -
In mid-July, Jackson County medical examiners identified ten drug overdose deaths in just five days . They believe nine of those deaths were related to the powerful opioid fentanyl. -
One lawmaker said she鈥檚 seeing a 鈥渟kyrocketing鈥� problem of too many people with substance abuse disorder being unable to access treatment and described her bills as a 鈥渟topgap鈥� that she said will save lives. -
The opioid epidemic is often associated with Appalachia, but the drugs are all over the country. And the responses to the epidemic are all over the map.鈥� -
Naloxone is a drug that quickly reverses an overdose of heroin or other opioid drugs. It鈥檚 been used by hospitals and emergency medical workers since the鈥� -
The opioid painkiller epidemic took a strange twist when doctors clamped down on the prescription drugs. Users began turning to heroin as a replacement鈥� -
Addictions to opioid prescription drugs are all too common in America. But facilities to treat people who've become addicted can be harder to find. Grants鈥�
