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Opioid Settlement Money Pays for Services To Battle Addiction in Rural Kentucky

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Rural eastern Kentucky is deploying opioid settlement funds to provide substance use disorder treatment, housing, and food assistance—a concrete reallocation of settlement money toward community need.

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