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        "title": "Federal lawmakers take first step toward oversight of $50 billion in opioid settlements",
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        "prettyDate": "January 30, 2024",
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        "summary": "Now, people harmed by the crisis, advocates, and public health and policy experts are hopeful that increasing congressional attention could push state and local governments to spend the money on treatment, housing, and other services for addiction victims and their families.",
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        "uri": "/2023/07/14/meet-the-people-deciding-how-to-spend-50-billion-in-opioid-settlement-cash/",
        "title": "The $50 billion question: Are the right people steering the opioid settlement payouts?",
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        "summary": "Opioid manufacturers and distributors are paying more than $54 billion in restitution to settle lawsuits about their role in the overdose epidemic, with little oversight on how the money is spent.",
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        "uri": "/2023/07/10/opioid-settlement-payouts-to-localities-made-public-for-first-time/",
        "title": "Opioid settlement payouts: How is the $50 billion to localities being distributed?",
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        "summary": "Los Angeles County was allocated $6.3 million from Janssen, the pharmaceutical subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, while Knox County, a rural Kentucky county in Appalachia — considered ground zero of the crisis — received $45,395.",
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        "title": "Health plans creating barriers for patients seeking mental health care from primary care docs",
        "byline": "Aneri Pattani, Kaiser Health News",
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        "prettyDate": "June 08, 2022",
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        "summary": "The main insurance plan may deny a claim, saying it's related to mental health, while the behavioral health company also denies it, saying it's physical.",
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        "title": "Advocates view health care as key to driving LGBTQ rights conversation",
        "byline": "Aneri Pattani, Kaiser Health News",
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        "prettyDate": "January 22, 2021",
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        "summary": "New laws at the local level look to address discrimination in employment, housing, public places and more.",
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        "byline": "Aneri Pattani, Kaiser Health News",
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        "prettyDate": "January 13, 2021",
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