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This photo of August 29, 2018 shows an arrangement of prescription oxycodone tablets in New York. Figures from a survey published in 2017 on September 14, 2018 show that fewer people have been using heroin for the first time compared to the previous year, and that fewer Americans misuse prescription opioid pain medications. (AP Photo / Mark Lennihan)
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This photo of August 29, 2018 shows an arrangement of prescription oxycodone tablets in New York. Figures from a 2017 survey released on Friday, September 14, 2018 show that fewer people have been using heroin for the first time
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Photo: Mark Lennihan / Associated Press
This photo of August 29, 2018 shows an arrangement of prescription oxycodone tablets in New York. Figures from a survey published in 2017 on September 14, 2018 show that fewer people have been using heroin for the first time compared to the previous year, and that fewer Americans misuse prescription opioid pain medications. (AP Photo / Mark Lennihan)
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This photo of August 29, 2018 shows an arrangement of prescription oxycodone tablets in New York. Figures from a 2017 survey released on Friday, September 14, 2018 show that fewer people have been using heroin for the first time
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Photo: Mark Lennihan / Associated Press
Connecticut will receive a $ 22 million federal grant over two years to strengthen its efforts in the fight against the opioid crisis, Governor Dannel P. Malloy said Friday.
The money will be used to buy 10,000 doses of naloxone – a drug also called Narcan used to reverse opioid overdoses – and distribute them throughout the state. It will also fund drugs for drug addiction in shelters and on the streets of two cities. It will increase the number of recovery coaches in hospitals and grant treatment to dependent detainees before and after their release.
"Too many Connecticut families continue to be affected by the opioid crisis," Malloy said in a statement. "Far too many lives have been cut."
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Connecticut is among the top ten states with the highest rates of opioid-related overdose deaths.
The accidental death of poisonous drugs in Connecticut increased from 357 in 2012 to 1,038 in 2017 – the first time the total exceeded 1,000, the office of the chief medical examiner said.
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