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Chris McGreal in Buffalo

‘Delays are costing lives’: the struggle to allocate US opioid settlement funds

A staff member packs overdose prevention kits at St Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction in New York City on 24 April 2023.
‘The numbers aren’t going in the right direction,’ said Robert Kent, a former general counsel for the Office of Addiction Services and Supports. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

The woman on the phone had nowhere else to turn.

“My son’s going to be calling. I already lost two sons this year. Help him, because I can’t have all three of my sons dying in one year,” she pleaded with the addiction support centre in Buffalo, New York.

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