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  • Feds boost Red Lake efforts to fight opioid abuse

    Emma Sapong|Sep 21, 2016

    A large set of federal loans will help a northwestern Minnesota Indian tribe deal with the opioid epidemic, as well as infrastructure needs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Community Facilities program approved nearly $13 million to fund four projects at Red Lake. The money will help the Red Lake Nation construct a $4.95 million chemical dependency treatment center, a $2.2 million fire hall in Ponemah, with a "training room, decontamination space, and enough space to house the Department's fleet of trucks under one roof," the USDA said....