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Some people who win lottery jackpots invest their money in ways that improve their own lives and the lives of others. Some people fritter it away and end up worse off than they were before.

And so it is with the millions of dollars coming into West Virginia from opioid settlements. The question is how counties should spend their shares of the money. There will be a lot of pigs at this trough. Already some counties are allocating their settlement dollars for wish-list projects that are only tangentially connected to substance abuse.

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