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FILE - This Oct. 19, 2016, file photo shows the packaging of Vivitrol at an addiction treatment center in Joliet, Ill. A new study finds only 1 in 4 teens and young adults with opioid addiction receive recommended treatment medication despite having good health insurance. The research suggests that doctors are not keeping up with the needs of youth in the opioid addiction epidemic. The study was published Monday, June 19, 2017, in JAMA Pediatrics. (AP Photo/Carla K. Johnson, File)
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"Wheel of Fortune" has expressed regret after a background image for "Southern Charm" week showing two black women on a Louisiana plantation sparked outrage. (YouTube/@joshitiola)
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A woman from Nigeria receives a pair of shoes from Italian aid workers, as she leaves the Golfo Azzurro rescue vessel upon their arrival at the port of Pozzallo, south of Sicily, Italy, with hundreds of migrants aboard, rescued by members of Proactive Open Arms NGO, on Saturday, June 17, 2017. A Spanish aid organization rescued more than 600 migrants who were attempting the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in packed boats from Libya. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Sub-Saharan migrants stand on the deck of the Golfo Azzurro rescue vessel as they arrive at the port of Pozzallo, south of Sicily, Italy, with hundreds of migrants aboard, rescued by members of Proactive Open Arms NGO, on Saturday, June.17, 2017. A Spanish aid organization rescued more than 600 migrants who were attempting the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in packed boats from Libya. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Deng Ming, deputy director of the National Narcotics Control Commission listens a question by Justin Schoeman from U.S. drug enforcement administration base in Beijing, during the National Anti-drug Committee briefing at a hotel in Beijing, Monday, June 19, 2017. China has announced it is banning a deadly synthetic opioid called U-47700 and three other synthetic drugs. Deng said the drugs would be added to China's list of controlled substances as of July 1. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Mexico's Hector Moreno, center, celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the Confederations Cup, Group A soccer match between Portugal and Mexico, at the Kazan Arena, Russia, Sunday, June 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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Mexico's Hector Moreno, 3rd from right, scores his side's second goal during the Confederations Cup, Group A soccer match between Portugal and Mexico, at the Kazan Arena, Russia, Sunday, June 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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Mexico's Hector Moreno, center, celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the Confederations Cup, Group A soccer match between Portugal and Mexico, at the Kazan Arena, Russia, Sunday, June 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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FILE - In this Jan, 25, 2017, file photo, protesters hold signs as they yell at a rally against President Donald Trump's move to tighten the nation's immigration controls, outside of City Hall in San Francisco. The state legislature is debating more than a dozen bills, sponsored by Democrats, to resist Trump's immigration agenda, particularly his promises to increase deportations and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2017, file photo Delilah Gutierrez, 10, holds a sign during a protest against President Donald Trump's efforts to crack down on immigration. in San Francisco. The state legislature is debating more than a dozen bills, sponsored by Democrats, to resist Trump's immigration agenda, particularly his promises to increase deportations and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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In a June 15, 2017 photo, Kevin Fantroy, 62, stands on his porch in Hamtramck, Mich. He and dozens of other black residents are challenging higher property tax bills. They say the higher taxes violate a settlement in a decades-old lawsuit over housing discrimination against blacks. (AP Photo/Ed White
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In this Friday, June 16, 2017 photo, Casey, a cat with feline immunodeficiency virus, pauses during a snack at the New Hampshire Humane Society shelter in Laconia, N.H. Current law prohibits shelters in the state from transferring pets with contagious illnesses, including cats with FIV, but a provision in the proposed state budget seeks to allow such adoptions. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer)
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In this Friday, June 16, 2017 photo, a cat named Casey licks his chops while being held by Lissa Mascio at the at the New Hampshire Humane Society shelter in Laconia, N.H. Mascio, the shelter's development director, and other officials have been urging the state legislature to allow adoptions of cats with feline immunodeficiency virus. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer)
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In this October 2016 photo provided by Lin Repola, Victoria Bianchi, left, commemorates the adoption that made her officially the third parent of daughter Madison Bonner-Bianchi, second from left, at Marin County Superior Court, San Rafael, California. With them are, from left, Kim Bonner, Marin County Superior Court Judge Verna A. Adams, and Mark Shumway. Bianchi, Bonner and Shumway have all been part of their daughter’s life since her birth in 2000, but the adoption came only after a 2013 California law declared that a child can have more than two parents. (Lin Repola via AP)
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In a Monday, May 29, 2017 photo, Sam Hunt, left, and his partner Darren Greenblatt pose for The Associated Press in their home in Princeton, N.J. The couple has a 7-year-old daughter with her biological mother, but things have not been easy, as the couple and the mother have fought over custody. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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In a Monday, May 29, 2017 photo, Sam Hunt, left, and his partner Darren Greenblatt pose for The Associated Press in their daughter's bedroom in their home. The couple has a 7-year-old daughter with her biological mother, but things have not been easy, as the couple and the mother have fought over custody. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Bill Cosby listens to his wife Camille's statement being read aloud by Ebonee M. Benson outside the Montgomery County Courthouse after a mistrial in his sexual assault case in Norristown, Pa., Saturday, June 17, 2017. Cosby's trial ended without a verdict after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Lawyer Dolores Troiani, who represented accuser Andrea Constand, walks outside the Montgomery County Courthouse after Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial, Saturday, June 17, 2017, in Norristown, Pa. Cosby's trial ended without a verdict after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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District Attorney Kevin Steele holds a news conference after a mistrial in Bill Cosby's sexual assault case in Norristown, Pa., Saturday, June 17, 2017. Cosby's trial ended without a verdict after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Judge Steven O'Neill leaves the courtroom following his decision in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Saturday, June 17, 2017. Cosby's trial ended without a verdict after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision. (Ed Hille/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool)
