Buffalo’s indifferent response to opioid overdoses

City Hall is sitting on most of the $6 million it’s received to combat the epidemic that has killed more than 500 residents in the past three years. One front-line treatment provider says much of the spending so far “screams of misappropriation.”

Editor’s note: This is the first of two stories on the use of opioid settlement funds by government agencies.

The City of Buffalo has spent less than a third of the almost $6 million in state funding it has received over the past three years to fight the opioid epidemic…

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