‘Delays are costing lives’: the struggle to allocate US opioid settlement funds

Distribution of New York's $200m from pharmaceutical firms to combat the epidemic has stalled due to bureaucracy tie-ups

The woman on the phone had nowhere else to turn.

My son's going to be calling. I already lost two sons this year. Help him, because I can't have all three of my sons dying in one year," she pleaded with the addiction support centre in Buffalo, New York.