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City leaders and the state Attorney General are coming together to provide more resources and expand addiction treatment services in South Dakota’s largest cities.

The state Highway Patrol seized over 200 pounds of meth during a stop.

SDPB had a conversation with Former South Dakota Chief Justice David Gilbertson about his work on the issue of addiction in South Dakota’s prison system.

South Dakota receives $1.9 million as part of another settlement with drug manufacturers, according to Attorney General Marty Jackley.

South Dakota is expected to receive more than $10 million as part of a settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family.

President Kathleen Wooden Knife says she declared the emergency due to escalating drug trafficking, use and associated violence, particularly involving firearms.

Grants for the anti-overdose drug Narcan are among the latest wave of proposed cuts by the Trump Administration. One South Dakota advocate who helps supply it statewide says she’s worried about the precedent it sets.

A new partnership is aiming to fight drug overdose deaths across South Dakota.

A Senate committee advanced a bill that proponents say is a “tough on crime” approach to illegal fentanyl distribution in the state.

House lawmakers are sending a bill to Governor Larry Rhoden that reforms the state’s felony ingestion charge. South Dakota is the only state in the country where ingestion of a controlled substance is a felony.