Lake County approved using $1.5 million from opioid settlements to fund an opioid coordinator and education program for public schools after the state legislation mandates updated standards for drug education.
Rosalind Pichardo, the founder of the Philadelphia organization Operation Save Our City, holds a container of Narcan as she demonstrates how to administer naloxone at the HHS Humphrey Building on Sept. 8, 2023, in Washington. Health officials held an event to mark the availability of the opioid overdose-reversal drug naloxone without a prescription.
This month, the Lake County Board authorized spending the funds to implement an Opioid Education Program for schools across the county, and to hire an opioid coordinator to help delegate the settlement spending. Lake County is estimated to receive about $215,000 in settlements each year for 18 years, totaling about $3.9 million, according to a statement from the county.
With future settlement funds, the county is considering mini-grants for local services providers who are on the front lines working with the community already.Paras Parekh, County Board member for District 12, who chairs the Health and Community Services Committee, said a coordinator will be beneficial in identifying how best to get the settlement funds into the hands of those who are doing mitigation and diversion work already.
“In 2023, we have had over five times the amount of only-fentanyl overdoses as we had the entire year of 2021, and over two times what was seen in the entire year of 2022,” Newton said in an email.
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