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California looking to pay drug addicts to stay sober

by Adam Beam
| August 26, 2021 2:06 PM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Frustrated by out-of-control increases in drug overdose deaths, California's leaders are trying something radical: They want the state to be the first to pay people to stay sober.

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