Legal settlements could provide local and state governments $50 billion to fight the deadly U.S. opioid overdose crisis
Precia Stuby, Executive Director of Hancock County Alcohol, Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services, is photographed in her office in Findlay, Ohio, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023."People recover in a community," said Precia Stuby."We have to build recovery-oriented communities that support individuals." Communities ravaged by America’s opioid epidemic are starting to get their share of a $50 billion pie from legal settlements.
It was 2007 when Stuby began hearing from officials about prescription opioids being misused. That was about the same time Jesse Johnson, then 14, was prescribed the painkiller Percocet. From 1999 through 2020, 131 deaths in the county were attributed to opioids. Across the country, it was more than 500,000. The county’s opioid-linked death rate over that period paralleled the nation’s as the crisis moved from pain pills to heroin to even more potent fentanyl.
2. The University of Findlay began offering classes on addiction. They can lead to an entry-level certificate for work in the field. 5. At the Family Resource Center, the quick response team identifies and reaches out to overdose survivors and people with substance use disorder who are being released from jail or prison.
“It’s not just about how to get people off of opioids, but how do we keep them in remission and increase their stable recovery?” said John F. Kelly, of Harvard Medical School. His research has shown that recovery support services — such as housing, community centers and peer coaching — can help.After she was released from a hospital following an overdose when she was 27, a peer support worker tracked her down in Findlay's homeless shelter.
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