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The Huntsville City Council is expected to give $2.4 million from a national opioid lawsuit settlement to three local agencies this week “for projects aimed at reducing the harm of the opioid epidemic on the community.'
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With House Bill 1, officially passed and signed into today, there will be new mandatory minimum prison sentences for people who get caught with fentanyl.
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Wellstone leaders say children often have to go to emergency rooms and wait for as long as 24 hours before a spot in a pediatric psychiatric in-patient treatment center opens up.
On Tuesday Governor Kay Ivey announced that $2.65 million will be awarded to help the homeless or at risk of being homeless in Alabama.
Fentanyl use is on the rise, and with it, rates of arrest, overdose, addiction and death have also risen.