Government Health South Dakota awards $7.8 million from opioid settlement to combat addiction

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The latest round of funding from a nationwide opioid settlement will pay for a mobile street medicine clinic, addiction treatment training for primary care doctors, and recovery coaching for incarcerated people and recent inmates.

The money will also help fund a mobile crisis team on the Cheyenne River Reservation, expand addiction treatment for juveniles and pregnant women, and fund four substance use interventionists for the Sioux Falls School District…

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