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Opioid Settlement Cash and Homelessness: It’s Not Always Clear How Addiction Fits In

By Aneri Pattani

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After years of using drugs and living on the street, Jason Fazekas completed nine months of recovery in October and is living in his own apartment. He says it’s all thanks to a housing program the state of Connecticut funded with $58.6 million in opioid settlement cash. (Aneri Pattani/KFF Health News)

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