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  "id": 12604663,
  "title": "How the Billions from the Opioid Settlement Are Being Spent",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/how-the-billions-from-the-opioid-settlement-are-being-spent",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-07T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New Yorker",
    "slug": "the-new-yorker",
    "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-the-billions-from-the-opioid-settlement-are-being-spent"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Some of the money, which is difficult to track, has gone to recovery programs, but much of it has gone to law enforcement—for squad cars, jail costs, drones, and more.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}