Boston's first distribution of opioid settlement funds will go to families who've lost a member to an overdose. Initial grants for funerals, child care and housing are expected this summer. Boston plans to renew the $250,000 fund annually.
In an unusual move, Boston will give some of the opioid settlement money it receives to families coping with an overdose death.
The $250,000 is just 4% of the city’s first-year settlement payment, which totaled $6 million. But family assistance was the In this 2018 file photo, Cheryl Juaire, of Marlborough, stands at her son's grave, in Chelmsford. Juaire lost her 23-year-old son to an overdose after he became addicted to prescription painkillers.
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