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A month in, The Turning Point recovery and community center in Oneonta is distributing as much naloxone in a day as they used to in a week.

The Southern Tier region will receive about $4.8 million from the settlement in 2022. The initial payout on Tuesday totaled about $759,000 for the region.

There have been nearly 50 overdoses since this year began, more than half in the past two weeks.

"Basically, if you overdose on fentanyl, you’re probably not gonna get revived even if someone tries to. It’s a death sentence. It’s very concerning."