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Opioid settlement payouts to localities made public for first time

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Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a protest on September 12, 2019 outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, over their recent controversial opioid settlement. Participants dropped hundreds prescription bottles of OxyContin while holding tombstones with the names of opioids casualties and banners reading "Shame on Sackler" and "200 Dead Each Day". (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The Biden Administration vowed to be a leading voice on opioid settlements but has gone quiet

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In rural America, deadly costs of opioids outweigh the dollars tagged to address them

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Corralling the facts on herd immunity

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