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Most of the funds from the settlement with manufacturers and distributors of opioids such as oxycodone will go to health care and drug treatment programs designed to ease the opioid crisis.

Keith Srakocic

How Governor Pritzker plans to tackle Illinois’ opioid crisis

Gov. JB Pritzker is pledging new resources to help fight the opioid epidemic in Illinois.

Reset takes a closer look at the state’s plans and talks to two advocates working on the ground on the West Side of Chicago.

GUESTS: David Jones, Illinois’ new chief behavioral health officer

Gail Richardson, outreach specialist at the West Side Heroin/Opioid Task Force

Luther Syas, director of outreach at the West Side Heroin/Opioid Task Force

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