The City Council unanimously voted to distribute $2.9 million in opioid settlement money to Albuquerque Community Safety's street outreach program and housing navigation services Monday night.

This appropriation is just one of many to come as Albuquerque receives a steady drip of funding from a $1 billion settlement agreement between New Mexico and pharmaceutical companies that made or sold addictive narcotic painkillers in the state.

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